Update: March 9, 2022: Members of End Citizens United Staff Union won voluntary recognition from management of the nonprofit organization on March 8. They are part of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035.
Workers at End Citizens United/Let America Vote announced Friday that they are unionizing. The organization’s core mission is to ensure that everyone has a voice and the freedom to participate in our democracy.
“We take pride at working at this organization and believe that our union will only make us stronger,” staffers said in a Mission Statement.
They are seeking more equitable pay, stronger diversity and inclusion practices, job protections and a say in how decisions are made about their workplace.
Alondra Vidal Díaz, a political assistant, said workers are committed to ECU/LAV “because it’s our passion, but we want a little more money.”
Staffers appreciate the benefits of the organization, he said, “but we want to make sure they don’t come and go. We felt we’d be stronger if we created a union.”
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