Sanders Campaign Battles With Staff Demanding $15 Hourly Pay

[Hoodat]

Sanders Campaign Battles With Staff Demanding $15 Hourly Pay - Which Candidate Says Should Be Federal Minimum

Donica Phifer     |     7/18/19 at 9:52 PM EDT

Campaign workers for Bernie Sanders have taken aim at one of the senator's key policies in his 2020 presidential run — raising the federal minimum wage.

According to The Washington Post, some members of Sanders' campaign team have been lobbying to raise their wages so that they make the $15 hourly rate that the Vermont senator has frequently called for both on the campaign trail and in Washington D.C.

The Post obtained a draft of a letter that the campaign's union planned to send to Sanders' campaign manager Faiz Shakir which read in part that workers "cannot be expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages. Given our campaign's commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour, we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team."

https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-campaign-battles-staff-demanding-15-hourly-pay-which-candidate-says-should-federal-1450103


Libs exempting themselves from the very policies they try to impose on the rest of us.  SSDD

[Bill Cipher]

Hoist on your own petard.  Beautiful!!

[libertybele]

Gee, back at ya Bernie!   

[Hoodat]

Leftist greed is never satisfied.

According to the agreement made between Sanders campaign and the union, which began on May 2, field workers were to be paid $36,000 annually rather than by hours worked. However, on May 17, the Post states that Shakir recommended that field organizer pay be raised to $42,000 during a staff meeting. In the same meeting, he also suggested that the work-week be extended to six days a week the union's letter said.

According to the Post, the union rejected Shakir's plan, in part because of the healthcare costs that would fall to the campaign workers to pay.  .  .  .


.  .  .  According to the Post, the union plans to send a new proposal to the Sanders campaign that includes a $46,800 salary for field organizers and $62,400 for regional field directors. Regional directors currently make $48,000 a year.

The proposal also asks for the campaign to pay 100 percent of healthcare costs for workers who make less than $36,000 a year, and to pay 85 percent for those who make over $36,000.

No word yet on what the union is willing to offer in return for these higher wages and free healthcare.

[GrouchoTex]

Hilarious.
Another Socialist leader saying, "Socialism for thee, but not for me".
Maybe if he sold 2 of his 3 houses, he could pay his workers the same wages he demands that the rest of us do.
Somehow, he thinks other employers can pay this when he cannot.
Lesson learned, Eh, Bernie?
Dumb ass.

[berdie]

This makes me rofl!!