Pro-Labor? Biden Aims to Prove It With Unionized 2024 Staff

NBC Connecticut ^ | 3/23 | Will Weissert and Zeke Miller

[nickcarraway]

Biden’s will be the first White House reelection campaign with a unionized workforce. The move allows Biden to further demonstrate to his base just how deep his pro-labor convictions are

Joe Biden likes to say he's the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When he announces his expected reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he'll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers.

Workers on his 2024 campaign will be unionized, political allies say, making him the first president to run a reelection campaign with staff represented by a union. That means hammering out a collectively bargained agreement that could establish salary minimums, set work hours and offer overtime pay, among other things, easing the demands on a workforce that has historically been required to put in long hours for meager pay and guaranteed joblessness after Election Day.

The move allows Biden to further demonstrate to his base just how deep his pro-labor convictions are, providing a strong contrast with his Republican opponents, whose staffers aren't likely to embrace unionizing. It also means extra work for those at the top of Biden's campaign to negotiate a contract and could present financial and workforce constraints, but union organizers and Democratic operatives insist that having a unionized staff would only make Biden's 2024 bid stronger.

[Salman]

Unions == Democrat PACs with some organizational history of once being unions.

They are "labor", but the bosses have an unusually high level of Ivy League fraternity backgrounds.

[I want the USA back]

He’s not for the WORKING PEOPLE. He’s for unions. Not the same thing.

[newzjunkey]

Can’t imagine a union shop run presidential campaign. What an interesting experiment. Of course there’s no reason to unionize his campaign. He can choose to address any disparities he thinks exists in campaigns without unionizing. He’s also had forty plus years to do this in his campaigns, has he done it before? Is this just a hedge against blue collar voters defecting?

[Eva]

Remember the Obama purple shirted SEIU workers? Now that the SEIU has taken over management of healthcare, including hospitals, nurses and office workers, they have multiplied their numbers exponentially. Instead of of bus loads, in front of opposition’s home, they will be taking over city squares.

[packagingguy]

Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/22/donald-trump-union-support-snub-joe-biden-418329

[Vaduz]

Biden still thinks he’s going to be in the run wait until his party gives him the out of here memo.

ICU gets mew member

[lepton]

That means hammering out a collectively bargained agreement that could establish salary minimums, set work hours and offer overtime pay, among other things, easing the demands on a workforce that has historically been required to put in long hours for meager pay and guaranteed joblessness after Election Day.

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Will they have a grievance procedure where they can’t be fired, or removed from their duties, until the appeals are exhausted? And get 60-90 days severance? Will they equalize overtime, so even unqualified will have to get the same amount of overtime as the skilled?

[ridesthemiles]

Biden campaigned in 2020 : “ALL JOBS IN THE USA SHOULD BE UNION-—EVEN SELF EMPLOYED.”

Biden needs every penny of UNION DONATIONS he can find.

[ridesthemiles]

SEIU is the union striking in the LA School district

Over 460,000 kids NOT in school-—out on streets.

[Eva]

The SEIU has what, the teachers’s aids, bus drivers and cafeteria workers? Parents should fill in until the strike is over. Kids who require aids will have to stay home. Kids should bring their lunches and stay home if they don’t have transportation and cannot walk.

California had the most aggressively unionized schools that I have ever seen. They created an adversarial relationship between the parents and teachers.

I have a liberal friend who is on some committee for the new high school in our district in WA. She keeps telling me that studies show that students do better in new schools, that new buildings create better schools. If that was true, the district where my daughter went to school on Orange County would have had the best schools in the country because they were all new. They were the worst and still on a downward trend.