Buttigieg 2020 campaign staff get new union contract

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two-and-a-half weeks out from the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses, which involves some of the heaviest campaigning in the 2020 Democratic primary season, workers on Pete Buttigieg’s campaign are getting an expansive new contract.

On Thursday, the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor announced that over 250 members of his campaign were formally recognized as members of the IBEW Local 2321, a telecommunications workers and political campaign union based out of Sioux City, Iowa. Both the campaign’s organizers and regional organizing directors will be covered in the agreement.