Last Thursday, it was announced that a group of campaign workers of 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, were unionizing.
Buttigieg has chosen to voluntarily recognize his campaign workers' decision to unionize, rather than requiring a secret ballot election. (This is not necessarily surprising. If Buttigieg had chosen to not recognize the union and instead required an election, critics would be quick to paint him as anti-union...a label he can ill afford to have placed on him while he courts the labor friendly voting block, imperative to any Democrat's effort to win the 2020 Presidential nomination.)
Following the announcement of some of the campaign workers unionizing, this marked the sixth Presidential campaign that has unionized so far this election cycle, coming on the heels of campaign workers for New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative Julian Castro, and Representative Eric Swalwell organizing as well. As a result of Buttigieg recognizing the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Chapter 2321 as the exclusive bargaining unit for any member of the campaign that holds the tile of "organizer", talks will now begin in regard to a bargaining agreement.
For additional information: https://www.newsweek.com/pete-buttigieg-supports-his-campaign-organizers-effort-unionize-1473395
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