Staffers At A Top, Bernie-Backed Progressive Firm Have Unionized
On Monday morning, a sudden wave of cheers sounded through the offices of the progressive digital consulting firm behind Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.
The staffers at Revolution Messaging had just formed their own union.
Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, a growing number of Democratic campaign workers are now moving to push the party that champions fair labor rights to apply the same standards to its own employees in an industry where the hours are long, the work is transient, and power dynamics and murky reporting structures can leave staffers with little recourse to address problems of misconduct and discrimination.
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Revolution Messaging, the Washington-based company that helped run Sanders’ digital strategy, is one of the first political firms to see its staffers form a union.
http://theusabulletin.com/2018/03/31/staffers-at-a-top-bernie-backed-progressive-firm-have-unionized/