Politburo Votes to Deny Its Own Workers the Right to Organize
Politburo Votes to Deny Its Own Workers the Right to Organize
The People’s Legislature has quietly buried H.1019, a bill that would have granted legislative staffers the right to form a union and bargain collectively — the same right Massachusetts law extends to virtually every other class of public employee in the Commonwealth Soviet. House Democratic leadership declined to advance the measure, ensuring it died without a floor vote.
The irony requires no elaboration, but ComradeCitizen provides it as a service: the same commissars who campaign on labor rights, stand with striking workers, and affix union bug logos to their campaign literature have determined that the workers typing their memos, staffing their committees, and answering constituent calls do not require such protections. Legislative employees have no formal recourse on wages, working conditions, or termination. The Politburo remains, in this respect, a closed shop of a different kind.
No floor debate. No recorded vote. The bill simply did not move. Massachusetts remains one of the few states where the legislature explicitly excludes its own workforce from collective bargaining protections it mandates for others.
Source: Commonwealth Beacon
