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The D.N.C. Ordered Workers Back to the Office. Its Union Isn’t Pleased.

Thumbs-down emojis flowed onscreen as Washington-area employees learned they would have to show up five days a week. Their union called the move “callous.”

© Annie Mulligan for The New York Times

Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, told party employees on Wednesday that those in the Washington area must work in person at the party’s headquarters five days a week beginning in February.
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