The announcement happened in the middle of talks between unionized staffers and the campaign’s top officials over improved working conditions.
The firings happened four days after the Yang campaign’s unionized employees sent a request to Yang campaign chief Nick Ryan asking for increased monthly pay for all full-time employees, a month’s severance pay at the new rate, and guaranteed expense reimbursement, including for travel and mileage. A former Yang staffer in South Carolina says the pay they received averaged out to a rate of $10 per hour, which they and others felt was insultingly low for the amount of work they were doing.
The unionized Yang campaign workers say they had planned to use work stoppages to get the campaign’s leadership to negotiate with the workers. But the actual negotiations never happened before the layoffs took place. A Yang campaign spokesperson says the firings had nothing to do with the negotiations between campaign leaders and the unionized staff. At least three of the five unionized campaign employees who put their names on an internal memo describing their requests lost their jobs in this week’s firings.is listed as one of Yang’s policy priorities on his campaign website.
The former Yang staffer in South Carolina says they still believe in Yang’s candidacy and message but felt disappointed by how the layoffs were handled. “If a campaign is going to claim to be different and have different values, at some point you need to live them,” the former staffer says.
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