Marx Bites Bernie: Sanders Campaign Engulfed In Messy Fight With Unionized Staff Over Pay

Townhall ^ | 07/19/2019 | Matt Vespa

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Sen. Bernie Sanders is one of the many faces that make up the progressive left within the Democratic Party. He’s an unapologetic democratic socialist. He has an economic agenda that would cost us trillions of dollars. And he’s staunchly pro-labor union. That is until his campaign staff starts making demands for better pay, right? Yeah, it seems so. The Sanders campaign has unionized and is demanding $15/hour for staff nationwide and so far the left-wing candidate’s leadership is silent on the matter. You just can’t make this up. The far left guy unionizes the staff, makes minimum wage hikes part of the campaign platform, and then decides to slow walk paying his own staff the wage he wants to enact nationwide for workers as president. Excuse me while I grab some popcorn (via WaPo):

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Bernie Sanders' campaign staff has unionized and is demanding a $15 per hour "living wage" and 100%-paid health care for those earning under $60k. The campaign leadership has thus far resisted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-bernie-sanders-campaign-as-workers-demand-the-15-hourly-pay-the-candidate-has-proposed-for-employees-nationwide/2019/07/18/3a6df9f4-a966-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?utm_term=.4d1827a32d20 …

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Matea Gold ✔ @mateagold SCOOP: For years, Bernie Sanders has traveled the country advocating for a $15 per hour minimum wage. His campaign organizers say they aren’t making that much, and they're using his words to protest for higher wages. Via @WaPoSean https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-bernie-sanders-campaign-as-workers-demand-the-15-hourly-pay-the-candidate-has-proposed-for-employees-nationwide/2019/07/18/3a6df9f4-a966-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html …

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Matea Gold ✔ @mateagold SCOOP: For years, Bernie Sanders has traveled the country advocating for a $15 per hour minimum wage. His campaign organizers say they aren’t making that much, and they're using his words to protest for higher wages. Via @WaPoSean https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-bernie-sanders-campaign-as-workers-demand-the-15-hourly-pay-the-candidate-has-proposed-for-employees-nationwide/2019/07/18/3a6df9f4-a966-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html …

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Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the compensation and treatment they are receiving does not meet the standards Sanders espouses in his rhetoric, according to internal communications.

Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum. The organizers and other employees supporting them have invoked the senator’s words and principles in making their case to campaign manager Faiz Shakir, the documents reviewed by The Washington Post show.

Sanders has made standing up for workers a central theme of his presidential campaigns — this year marching with McDonald’s employees seeking higher wages, pressing Walmart shareholders to pay workers more and showing solidarity with university personnel on strike. The independent from Vermont has proudly touted his campaign as the first presidential effort to unionize its employees, and his defense of the working class has been a signature element of his brand of democratic socialism and a rallying cry for the populist movement he claims to lead.

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By encouraging these workers to unionize, Sanders and his campaign opened a path to negotiate for more than the low wages that typically have prevailed in past campaigns. They are seizing the opportunity.

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It was not completely clear why the wage dispute began so swiftly after the campaign and the union reached the initial agreement, though at that point the campaign had yet to assemble its sprawling roster of field organizers. But on May 17, Shakir convened an all-staff meeting, during which he recommended raising the pay for field organizers to $42,000 and changing the workweek specifications, according to an email he later wrote to staff. The union draft indicated he was seeking to extend the workweek to six days.

Shakir pressed for a swift vote so he could make budget decisions and decide how many field organizers to hire, according to his email.

The union rejected his offer, because the raise would have elevated field staff to a pay level responsible for paying more of their own health-care costs, according to the draft proposal the union was preparing this week.

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The campaign workers decided to press harder. On July 11, dozens logged into Slack, the popular instant-messaging service used by the campaign’s employees, and began bombarding Shakir with appeals to raise pay for field organizers.

And all of this happening while Sanders is pressing for a $15 minimum wage on the campaign events and trashing Mcdonald's for not adopting such a policy. Not good. First, the senator couldn’t deal with the rampant allegations of sexism and sexual harassment that infested his 2016 campaign because…he was too busy running for president. Now, his executive staff is having a mess of a time trying to pay staff based on the policies he’s peddling out there. Bernie Sanders, so competent to be our next president that he cannot get a simple pay dispute with staff settled. Yeah, there’s inefficiency and hypocrisy here, two of the hallmark characteristics of socialism.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

$100 bucks says Bernie never tips over 10%!

[Dilbert San Diego]

The ironies are amazing aren’t they?

This reminds me of studies done, which showed that both Obama and Hillary Clinton, which showed women on their staffs earned less than men.

Some of these people want to solve all the alleged inequities of the world, and it turns out, they can’t even solve these problems in their own offices.

[Zhang Fei]

If he starts gold plating his campaign spending, he’ll run out of money right quick.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Marx Bites Bernie: Sanders Campaign Engulfed In Messy Fight With Unionized Staff Over Pay

Bernie: "Do as I say, not as I do."

[Zhang Fei]

Funny thing is communist dictators would have strikers sent to the gulag.

[antidemoncrat]

Are you sure his tips aren’t 0%.

[jospehm20]

I suspect that Bernie never tips.

[ClearCase_guy]

Was it Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden who sent over the undercover agent who convinced Bernie’s staff to take this action?

Brilliant campaign move.

[SunkenCiv]

"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!"

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Funny...he has to manage expenses to avoid going broke. That just happens to be the goal of every single capitalist company I worked for. (It was actually more sophisticated than that as we were trying to maximize profits, but expense control was the major part of that effort)

So this Sanders a$$hole, constantly excoriating capitalism, uses capitalism methods to stay afloat rather than honor true “justice” to pay his people a “living wage.”

[SunkenCiv]

Bernie hasn't yet noticed the band on the sloping deck is playing "Nearer My God To Thee".

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[thesligoduffyflynns]

I looked all over and neither the Burlington Free press/WCAX News and VTDigger.org have ANY news on this.
It’s only been a few days up that Peter Welch is NOW “calling for impeachment” even after the move to impeach was quashed yesterday. Looks like Welch can’t keep up.

St. Bernie he ain’t

[thesligoduffyflynns]

$200 bucks says Bernie NEVER tips

[poconopundit]

Seems to me Cortezzzz also has a tipping problem. Some waitress complained that Cortez stiffed her one night.

Bwa ha ha

[GOPJ]

This reminds me of studies done, which showed that both Obama and Hillary Clinton, which showed women on their staffs earned less than men. Some of these people want to solve all the alleged inequities of the world, and it turns out, they can’t even solve these problems in their own offices.

Liberal 'morality' has always been something to shove down other people's throats... These 'elites' never plan on following the rules OR laws they create for the 'little people'...

[poconopundit]

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[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[Billthedrill]

I’m shocked to see these campaign workers have so little understanding of how socialism works. The higher you are in The Party, the fewer rules that apply. They’re foot soldiers. Eat your gruel and be grateful for it, Comrades!