Er ah, er ah, I'm glad I'm not around for this!!
Posted on 07/19/2022 8:23:48 AM PDT by Houserino
The Congressional Workers Union announced today eight Democratic offices will be the first to unionize.
"For far too long, congressional staff have dealt with unsafe working conditions, unlivable wages, and vast inequity in our workplaces," a Monday press release stated. "Having a seat at the bargaining table through a union will ensure we have a voice in decisions that impact our workplace." The Congressional Workers Union’s website says the unionization effort was prompted by "problematic work conditions," including insufficient pay, high turnover, and "pervasive" sexual harassment.
Eighty-five staffers from the offices of Reps. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), Chuy Garcia (D., Ill.), Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), Andy Levin (D., Mich.), Ted Lieu (D., Calif.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), and Melanie Stansbury (D., N.M.) moved to join the new union.
Some of those members are multimillionaires. Lieu, a lawyer and real estate investor, has a reported 2018 net worth of $3.5 million, according to OpenSecrets. Levin owns an energy company and has a net worth of almost $3.95 million. The median salary for House staffers is $59,000.
Democrats hemorrhaged staff at a rate 24 percent higher than Republicans in 2021, the Hill reported in March.
A former chief of staff to Garcia resigned in 2019 following allegations that he laughed in the face of a female staffer after she disclosed she had been sexual harassed when both were working on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign. Bush and Ocasio-Cortez both claim to have been victims of sexual harassment.
Levin led the charge to pass the resolution making congressional unionizing legal. The resolution passed in May, but a Senate version has yet to pass. Now, House staffers cannot be fired, demoted, or otherwise punished for unionizing, a development that opened the door for Monday’s announcement.
The union’s website says a few negotiation goals are more flexible telework options, comprehensive health and safety protocols, and improved severance policies. In April, after President Joe Biden urged Americans to return to in-person work during his State of the Union address, the Washington Free Beacon reported in March Democrats on Capitol Hill had failed to end their work-from-home policies, preferring to extend teleworking policies indefinitely.
Franken is almost normal when compared to the current crop of congressional critters. Now, that is a sad observation.
Why is it only Democrat staffers complaining. I thought the Republicans were the party of evil?
McDonalds is hiring …..
The staff turnover and complaints are quite striking between democrats and Republicans.
AO-Crazy was a bartender......how come she’s now worth over $25 million dollars?
Doesn’t matter, she still complains she’s under paid.. Poor thing.
:0) Remember those cute videos she did online when she first moved to DC putting together all that IKEA furniture? And her amazement at what that thing in the kitchen sink was? (A garbage disposer). She’s come a long way, baby....
Political staffers trying to tame the sex obsessed Democrat Congressmen.
Er ah, er ah, I'm glad I'm not around for this!!
Speaking of, whatever happened with Gary Condit?
And the taxpayers haven’t seen the list odd who used pure money to buy people off
JFK’s executive order allowing government employees to unionize and Biden beholding to them for getting him elected is a recipe for disaster.
Learn to code.
It could be done with a Presidential Executive Order revoking Executive Order 11491:
Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining. This executive order was a breakthrough for public sector workers, who were not protected under the 1935 Wagner Act.Passage of the executive order forestalled the legislative Rhodes-Johnson Union Recognition bill, which would have given more power to federal employee unions, possibly creating a union shop arrangement.[1][2]
Executive Order 10988 was effectively replaced by President Richard Nixon's Executive Order 11491 in 1969.
You’re right if a bill wasn’t actually passed.
I thought LBJ codified it into law.
Interestingly, the supposed killer illegal alien was let go due to some legal malfeasance by the prosecutors. Maybe it wasn’t the El Salvadoran after all.
How many of those staff went to work for another Congresscritter (same party even)?
Remember there is still that secret list of sex pervs in congress
This is great. Progressive jerks now have union jerks. Could not happen to a nicer bunch.
Eighty-five staff from eight CongressCritters... What do they need 10+ staff each for? At $60M apiece, plus the ones that didn’t join, means each CongressCritter is costing at least $1MM a year just in labor...
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