(Politico)
IAN KULLGREN 06/05/2019 12:57 PM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign workers have opted to join a union, according to an official involved in the effort.
The campaign workers will be represented by the Manchester, N.H.-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2320. The Warren campaign didn’t object to the idea of a union when IBEW broached the subject this week, promptly providing a list of workers who it thought should be included in the bargaining unit.
“They were pretty open to the idea,” Steven Soule, the IBEW Local 2320 business manager, told POLITICO in an interview.
Warren‘s staff is the fourth presidential campaign to unionize, after those of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
All four campaigns allowed their campaign staffs to organize through the informal collection of authorization forms, a process known as "card check" that is less cumbersome than a secret-ballot election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, which managers are permitted under labor law to require.
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