“I think every one of us who's worked here in Albany has come to work one morning and left work the following afternoon, without really knowing sometimes that that day was going to be a day like that,” says Frank Sainato.
, while the U.S. congressional staff is also organizing.
"I'm figuring out this is a very nocturnal place,” Hochul said later that day. “A lot happens late at night, and that's when compromises are made and decisions are made." But the organizers know the compensatory time issue is a major sticking point for many Senate workers, and they say it’s reasonable to assume that’s an area they would want to collectively bargain for – either for guaranteed overtime pay, the ability to sell back compensatory hours, mandatory breaks between shifts, or something along those lines.
“The exclusions are specific and there's nothing under the Taylor Law that excludes legislative employees from unionizing, just as the employees of the judiciary in New York are unionized,” said Herbert, former deputy chair and counsel at the state Public Employment Relations Board.Now, it will be up to the organizers to continue to collect union cards from employees who support the effort.
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