House Staffers Confront Reality of Unionization

“While congressional staffers’ talk of unionizing its long-overlooked workforce has suddenly accelerated, they’re already crashing headfirst into the more complicated reality,” Politico reports.

“Buoyed by an endorsement from Speaker Nancy Pelosi herself, dozens of senior House staff, mostly on the Democratic side, are searching for the next steps for their union drive. But it turns out that many of the problems with the Capitol as a workplace — notably, that there are more than 535 offices, each of which sets their own policies — are some of the same reasons it would be so tricky to collectively organize.”

Interesting from Punchbowl News: “White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during today’s briefing that President Joe Biden supports congressional staff unionization efforts.”