Then there is the ever-widening income spread between government employees and their private sector counterparts. How did it happen? Government employee unions for one thing. Thank JFK for that one.
Fifty years ago, on January 17, 1962, Federal employees first obtained the right to engage in collective bargaining through labor organizations when President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, "Employee-Management Cooperation in the Federal Sector." Executive Order 10988 issued as result of the findings of the Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service, which was created by a memorandum issued to all executive department and agency heads by President Kennedy on June 22, 1961. In this memorandum the President noted that, "The participation of employees in the formation and implementation of employee policy and procedures affecting them contributes to the effective conduct of public business," and that this participation should be extended to representatives of employees and employee organizations.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?114791-The-Dumbbell-Scandal&p=2934199#post2934199
Bernie Sanders can thank JFK regardless of how he answers the question:
QUESTION: Are Bernie’s parasites government employees or private sector workers?
ANSWER: Government employees.
Bernie’s parasites are paid out of millions of TAX DEDUCTIBLE campaign donations. Those deductions are passed along to every taxpayer —— even to taxpayers who would not give a penny to Socialist scum like Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders' 2020 staff is making history in one of the strangest of ways: they have now joined the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400, making them the first presidential campaign to agree to collective bargaining.
Naturally, a filthy piece of garbage like Bernie Sanders is proud to give parasites a seat at the public trough. In fact, wannabes in both parties will soon give their ass-kissing campaign workers tax dollar incomes.
“I am so proud to be taking this historical step of becoming the first-ever presidential campaign with a unionized workforce,” Krista Harness, a Senior Development Manager who served on the bargaining committee, said in a statement. "I know that our newly ratified union contract will make our workplace more equitable, fair and resilient, and our overall campaign will be much stronger with the protections we were able to win for the workers.”
This is inevitable. United Food and Commercial Workers Union will negotiate what amounts to government employee pensions for tens of thousands of campaign staff parasites.
Here's what the agreement does:
• Establishes a flexible work week.
• Gives staffers days off each month where they're not on call.
• Provides breaks and meal breaks as well as mandatory time off between long shifts.
• Paid vacation time has doubled from 10 days per year to 20.
• Field organizers will have 100 percent of their health care premiums paid for, as long as they make less than $36,000 annually.
• Interns in the national headquarters will make a minimum of $20/hour and receive full benefits.
• Hourly employees are eligible for overtime pay.
• Comprehensive protections for immigrant and transgender workers.
• No one in campaign management can make more than three times the highest-paid worker in the bargaining unit. The only exception would be outside consultants.
The campaign said they would not interfere with negotiations and would recognize Local 400 as long as the majority of the employees signed onto the union.
“This was a model experience in every respect,” Local 400 President Mark Federici said. “First, Senator Sanders walked the talk on unions, agreeing to a truly democratic process — neutrality and card check — that every responsible employer should embrace. And then, the campaign engaged in good faith bargaining, recognizing that it’s in their own interest to have well-treated employees empowered to operate at the top of their games. I urge every other campaign to follow their lead.”
• Establishes a flexible work week.
• Gives staffers days off each month where they're not on call.
• Provides breaks and meal breaks as well as mandatory time off between long shifts.
• Paid vacation time has doubled from 10 days per year to 20.
• Field organizers will have 100 percent of their health care premiums paid for, as long as they make less than $36,000 annually.
• Interns in the national headquarters will make a minimum of $20/hour and receive full benefits.
• Hourly employees are eligible for overtime pay.
• Comprehensive protections for immigrant and transgender workers.
• No one in campaign management can make more than three times the highest-paid worker in the bargaining unit. The only exception would be outside consultants.
The campaign said they would not interfere with negotiations and would recognize Local 400 as long as the majority of the employees signed onto the union.
“This was a model experience in every respect,” Local 400 President Mark Federici said. “First, Senator Sanders walked the talk on unions, agreeing to a truly democratic process — neutrality and card check — that every responsible employer should embrace. And then, the campaign engaged in good faith bargaining, recognizing that it’s in their own interest to have well-treated employees empowered to operate at the top of their games. I urge every other campaign to follow their lead.”
These Are The Perks Bernie's Team Is Getting Now That They're Unionized
Beth Baumann
Posted: May 08, 2019 10:00 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethb...ies-team-solidified-a-union-contract-n2546070
Beth Baumann
Posted: May 08, 2019 10:00 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethb...ies-team-solidified-a-union-contract-n2546070
Finally, President Trump could shake the parasite class no end if he rescinds Executive Order 10988.
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