(PresidentialWire.com)- Members of the Democratic National Committee announced last week that they are joining a labor union, raising questions about the way the Democrats treat their employees.
Last Tuesday, it was revealed that DNC staff would be joining the Service Employees International Union Local 500, marking the first time a national political party’s employees unionized. That’s some record to break…
This is big news! Staff at the Democratic National Committee have signed cards to join SEIU Local 500. They will be the first national party organization to have a unionized workplace!https://t.co/8xCKrOMHqD
— SEIU Local 500 (@SEIULocal500) August 3, 2021
The SEIU Local 500 is a labor union that usually represents workers of universities, colleges, public schools, and nonprofit organizations in the Washington, D.C. and Maryland region. The union announced in a statement that they are “20,000 strong and growing.”
The decision, which was made by the staff, was ultimately supported by the Democratic National Committee in a statement. Which they obviously had to do.
Can you imagine if the DNC came out against the decision? There would be no defending it.
The DNC statement said that the decision by their staff to join a union is a “reaffirmation of solidarity among workers” as well as the key role that unions play in “building the middle class.”
The same middle class that is being crippled by rising gas and consumer prices? Thanks, Biden.
According to the DNC statement, unionization efforts usually stem from disputes in the workplace but that “this is not the case at the DNC.”
They would say that…
