If you support unions, you ought to support people who want to unionize.

🔗 House Democrats spike bill to let legislative staffers unionize:

House Democrats have quietly smothered legislation that would have given aides in both chambers a clear legal right to organize and collectively bargain. A similar bill is technically still alive in the Senate, but given that top lawmakers there have already voiced concerns about the legal framework for a staff union, the prospects appear dim.

As a result, legislative employees will likely ride out the remainder of 2026 in an unchanged position: facing a Senate hierarchy that argues current law does not allow staff to bargain collectively, and a Legislature that does not want to rewrite statute to make that possible.

I know I’m like a broken record about this but the Massachusetts state legislature is an embarrassment, and that is due entirely to the Democrats who hold all the power there.

I say this as Democratic voter who is happy to live in one of the bluest states in the country. We should be leading by example here in the Commonwealth, but the Massachusetts Democratic Party is a hidebound, calcified bunch who are too obsessed with maintaining their own personal power than actually serving the people who elected them.