While I am all for the staff Unionizing, why wasn’t this done years ago instead of a couple of days before a LIKELY new chair will be elected. It smells a bit.
As a person who has worked in printing for 25 years, we have often run into roadblocks in getting printing from the SDDP because they require a union printer. I only know of ONE union printer in Sioux Falls and they cannot handle large statewide mailings, that I know. That is why a lot of SDDP LARGE mailings are printed out of state at bigger union facilities. I find it to be a double standard requiring union printers when the staff isn’t even unionized.
Like I said, this is a good step, but it also looks like it will tie the hands of the new chair. Make no mistake, the new chair will want to make staff changes. I think it is pretty obvious that when there is a regime change, you change a few soldiers under that regime. I guess we will see what kind of roadblocks this presents for the new chair. I told one candidate already that if they win they need to ‘Clean House’. You can’t keep remnants of a failing party around when you are trying to rebuild it. Fixing the SDDP will take more than just a new chair, it will take a NEW staff willing to try NEW ideas, whether they are union or not.
I am all for unions, too. But what does the contract say about having campaign workers and/or staff putting in 18 hours days for up to a month before the election?
Keep in mind, that when the SDDP successfully took control of the State Senate for Dems back in ’92, while the Republicans had the governorship, co-executive directors, Hildebrand and Erpenbach went without a check at times, because there was not enough money in the party coffers…. But how would one define that reality today? Was it loyality? Was it compassion for a cause? Or, is that worker abuse?
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for unions. I have always said that everyone should belong to a union except for CEOs, but with the Tornberg Ship sinking, this act at this time only further proves that the SDDP has become nothing but a walking “full employment act.”
how many people does this even cover? 3?
At least from my experience those in the SDDP office have been great! The new chair would have to go thru collective bargaining to remove an employee or would right to work for slave labor laws apply?
This is exactly why they did it 3 days before the chair election, so the new chair will have difficulty firing them. This has Tornberg written all over it. I know she knows she won’t be re-elected so she had to keep her spies in the office. It’s sad. Like I asked, if this was so damn important, why wasn’t it done years ago? If I was the new chair I would put together a large team of volunteers to do the office work and give the current staff ZERO responsibilities and close the offices and let them sit at home twiddling their thumbs until they finally quit.
Just goes to show the dem party is obsessed with special interests rather than the people they are suppose to represent.
Its like the near dawn of the Jefferson presidency, when John Adams frantically appointed federal judgeships.
First, it was a free lunch and now this. All of it is merely an attempt to maintain the Tornberg/Sutton culture within the SDDP; but a course it’s masked as worker empowerment.
Being a paid staffer with a political party is not a job. It is a passion. It is a struggle and a cause for something. The great irony of all of this is that in an attempt to strength and booster worker rights, it is actually a shield to maintain a corporatism with an 8 to 5 mentality within our political party, when actually no real political party ever turns its lights off nor knows such a compartmentalization of its efforts or goals.
With a struggle there are no guarantees. But that’s okay, because you believe in what you are doing. A political party, however, that rents their employees, and or their commitments, for the sake of action is a political party, I am afraid, that has lost its purpose and soul.
VSG Tornburg/Sutton culture? How does Sutton figure into this or his key campaign people?
TUAP,
I am talking about the anti-choice, pro gun promotion, and got to be a Christian to run wing of the SDDP…. That’s how… That’s definitely Sutton and what Tornburg expouses to be…