House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement Friday that the House is expected to vote on a resolution next week that would allow congressional staffers to unionize.
and form a union. Regulations were issued to implement the labor provisions of that 1995 law, but they aren't effective until lawmakers take the final step of formally agreeing to them.
The House speaker on Friday also said that minimum annual pay for staffers in the House would be set at $45,000 starting Sept. 1. "With a competitive minimum salary, the House will better be able to retain and recruit excellent, diverse talent. Doing so will open the doors to public service for those who may not have been able to afford to do so in the past," Pelosi said.
"This is also an issue of fairness, as many of the youngest staffers working the longest hours often earn the lowest salaries."Pelosi's announcement comes weeks after more pressure from the Congressional Workers Union, which formally launched in February, to put the resolution to a vote. "Many of us write and work tirelessly to advance the very laws that protect and promote every worker's right to organize. We deserve those same rights—Congress should not be above the laws it creates," the Congressional Workers UnionThe union asked leadership to schedule a vote during the last week of April, saying that House Democrats must lead by example, but the deadline wasn't met.
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