Bernie's campaign union strife is what he proposes for the whole countryWashington Examiner, Jul 29, 2019, Michael Watson
For many conservatives, the labor struggles of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders are greatly amusing. The senator has never seen a favor to Big Labor that he didn’t support, yet his presidential campaign staff complain to the press about their working conditions. He also neglects to pay them the mythical $15 an hour minimum wage he promotes on Capitol Hill and in his stump speeches.
More incongruous was the senator’s response. He told the press, “It does bother me that people [i.e., union members and officials] are going outside of the process and going to the media. … That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it's improper.â€
To the contrary, taking the campaign to the media is precisely what modern labor negotiations are about.
The Service Employees International Union, the largest political donor for decades, has spent upwards of an estimated $90 million on a public relations campaign to unionize the restaurant industry while raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour — the pay level Sanders’ campaign workers said they weren’t receiving.
That campaign is hardly alone. Decades ago, the SEIU pioneered the “corporate campaign,†a tactic that drags businesses through the media mud to compel them to aid unionization. Such campaigns are labor unions’ industry standard, and Sanders has repeatedly backed legislation that would make those campaigns even more disruptive to the economy.
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