In this house we delay the right of our workers to collectively bargain until we see the results of a study. Lester Black
Earlier this week the effort to allow legislative branch workers to unionize took a step forward, but the track got longer.
Last Wednesday a bunch of people who work for Washington’s Legislature — aides, communications staff — called out sick in protest of poor working conditions. The action came the day after Democrats killed a bill that would have removed the prohibition against those workers collectively bargaining, which was a weird thing for ostensibly pro-union Democrats to do. During a press conference later that day, House Speaker
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