The Democrat-controlled House is set to vote this week on legislation that would allow Capitol Hill staffers to unionize.
The decision to hold a vote – amid staffers’ increasingly public comments and efforts to address low pay, long hours and mean bosses – was announced Friday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Congressional staffers deserve the same fundamental rights and protections as workers all across the country, including the right to bargain collectively,” the California Democrat said in her letter to colleagues.
Though the bill is unlikely to make it through the Senate, if the House passes it, it will take effect in the lower chamber due to the Congressional Accountability Act. more
“Staffers deserve”… to go down with their ships. When their doofus leaves, so should they. Perhaps buried in the same pyramid….
It’s interesting that the staffers have to unionize. Why the heck are the members of Congress paying them more already? Oh, wait, that’s right, don’t do what I do, do what I say (they tell the world to pay their employees a living wage, but they don’t have to do that for their own staffers. What a bunch of a-holes).
Even that socialist FDR was against government unions. The richest area of the country is the D.C swamp.
Let them unionize and see what real theft is… oh, wait!
I thought they just got a 21% raise. Yeah, better unionize.
“Let them unionize and see what real theft is”
You’re on to something there light weight. Unions are all about contracts. Let see them.
It was $10,000 upfront for John George to go NABET. NABET wasn’t tied to CWA at the time. Pathetic. John was pissing himself. I was Staff, non-union, Blue Badge. I could go anywhere and do anything. But I fought for that, and the people who hired me fought for that.
I saw that congressional staffers maximum salary was $193,000, more that congress pay.
Does that mean they would take a pay cut?
That is also why they hire a lot of family members.
Keep the money in the family.
Erik
So who the fuck is Brian? And what’s Blue Balls have to do with what you’re employer fought for. No thanks. I’m confused.
Brad… I told ABC I would not accept the job if it was a union job. Capital Cities fought for months on my title, and finally granted me SCE.
“Nobody gets what they deserve, they get what they negotiate” ~ a lesson that took hold, from my dad
“SCE” was laughable… but…