{"id":261277,"date":"2021-05-28T05:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dianne-morales-calls-campaign-a-beautiful-mess-as-staff-seeks-union\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T05:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T02:43:24","slug":"dianne-morales-calls-campaign-a-beautiful-mess-as-staff-seeks-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dianne-morales-calls-campaign-a-beautiful-mess-as-staff-seeks-union\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dianne Morales calls campaign a ‘beautiful mess’ as staff seeks union"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dianne Morales calls campaign a ‘beautiful mess’ as staff seeks union<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Progressive mayoral candidate Dianne Morales called the state of her chaotic campaign a \u201cbeautiful mess\u201d as some staffers look to unionize amid ongoing internal turmoil.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful and messy thing, that they\u2019re doing this,\u201d Morales said Thursday during an app<\/a>earance on NY1\u2019s \u201cInside City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s reflective of the very transformative campaign that we have been running \u2013 that they\u2019ve organized this way, and I\u2019ve been fully supportive of that from the moment it was raised to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

But some workers under the union banner said the same day they decided on a work stoppage because four of their leaders were fired from the campaign.<\/p>\n

Morales\u2019 appearance came after a rocky week for the Gracie Mansion hopeful that included anonymous social media<\/a> accusations that people of color on staff were paid less than white workers. The candidate acknowledged unspecified \u201charm caused\u201d by some staffers on Wednesday as she announced three departures.<\/p>\n

In her TV appearance, she said her support for the union was separate from decisions on \u201cwho the appropriate staff are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI made some staffing decisions and some staffing changes as independent of any kind of union effort, I stand by those decisions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A statement from the \u201cDianne Morales for NYC Union\u201d the same day as her appearance said a group of staff members told the candidate earlier this week about \u201ca culture of manipulation, harassment and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

But four democratically elected leaders representing the staff to negotiate a contract were fired, the statement said. Three of them were black women and one was a queer white woman, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were terminated via email only minutes before a scheduled all-staff meeting, one in which we were prepared to calmly present our demands to move forward in order to create a space safe enough for staff to work in,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The members then agreed to a work stoppage, the statement said, although it doesn\u2019t specify how many staffers are part of the agreement.<\/p>\n

The turmoil set the stage for some pointed on-air questions from host Errol Louis.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the voters who are watching all of this take place, the question is if handling a couple of dozen people has this much turmoil for Dianne Morales, how are you going to manage a workforce of 300,000?\u201d Louis asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to be clear, the folks who are engaging in the unionizing effort and the work stoppage are not reflective of the entire staff, there are campaign staff in the office hard at work right now,\u201d Morales replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a, sort of, beautiful mess here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, I think there\u2019s multiple things happening at the same time, which is exactly what would happen as Mayor of New York City,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

She needed to do \u201cmultiple things at the same time,\u201d she told Louis.<\/p>\n

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Dianne Morales getting interviewed on NY1 amid her campaign\u2019s turmoil.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cI\u2019m handling the staff that are challenged and disgruntled and wanting to organize, and I\u2019m handling the staff that are still here and working hard and committed to the campaign, and I\u2019m being the candidate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers understand multitasking, New Yorkers understand managing crisis and dealing with different things at the same time \u2014 and that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing, and that\u2019s what I\u2019d do as mayor,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I think this is a reflection of what it would look like to be on the job and I\u2019m very comfortable with the way I\u2019m handling it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morales\u2019 campaign had been reeling ahead of the internal strife after it was revealed earlier this month that a 2003 city investigative report found she participated in a scheme to bribe a corrupt city official to nix a $12,000 sewer bill \u2013 and then lied about it.<\/p>\n

The mayoral primary is June 22, and it\u2019s the first major election to use the new ranked-choice voting system, where voters select their picks of five candidates in order. The new system will avoid the need for a runoff election.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Dianne Morales calls campaign a ‘beautiful mess’ as staff seeks union” Progressive mayoral candidate Dianne Morales called the state of her chaotic campaign a \u201cbeautiful mess\u201d as some staffers look to unionize amid ongoing internal turmoil. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful and messy thing, that they\u2019re doing this,\u201d Morales said Thursday during an appearance on NY1\u2019s \u201cInside…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/morales-ny-one-777.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[7309,101129,107443,72182],"class_list":["post-261277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-unions","tag-2021-election","tag-5-27-21","tag-mayoral-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}