Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay [tr]

Washington Post ^ | July 18, 2019 | Sean Sullivan

[C19fan]

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.

[C19fan]

Example number 10 to the power of 100 of a Leftie Do As I Say, Not As I Do Moment moment.

[Drango]

More popcorn please.

[BunnySlippers]

Priceless!

So much good news this morning!

[yldstrk]

Priceless!

So much good news this morning!

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What she said

[DoodleBob]

[babble-on]

Comedy

[NativeSon]

His campaign workers are mistaken, Comrade Sanders is very clear about everyone else footing the bill for his bribes & schemes.

[Don Corleone]

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,

Surprised??? Anyone??

[InterceptPoint]

I think I have the correct spelling of IRONY. I need to know for sure before I fire off my email to the Bernie campaign.

[FirstFlaBn]

I think I have the correct spelling of IRONY. I need to know for sure before I fire off my email to the Bernie campaign.

I don't know. I'm pretty sure 'hypocrite' has an 'h' in it somewhere.

[jalisco555]

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

[Yo-Yo]

[Bigg Red]

Bernie a hypocrite? I know I’m shocked.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Some animals are more equal than others.

[SuperSonic]

...The union and the Sanders campaign reached a collective bargaining agreement that went into effect on May 2 and expires on March 31, 2021. The agreement established wage classifications for national and state staff, ranging from $15 an hour for interns and canvassers to $100,000 annual salaries for bargaining unit deputies.

Field organizers, who are on the front lines of the campaign’s crucial voter contact efforts, were to be paid not by hours worked but via an annual salary set at $36,000. Regional field directors were to be paid $48,000 annually, and statewide department directors were allocated $90,000 per year.

Wait ... isn't that income inequality?

[lurk]

Is Bernie making $15/hr?

[poconopundit]

If Presidential contenders owned trains, what would they look like?

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[poconopundit]

Democratic Underground is also going after BS over this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287205646

[aquila48]

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[mosesdapoet]

LET’S BRING BACK THE 5 CENT CANDY BAR
When politicians particularly members of today’s in name only democrat party started pushing for a higher minimum wage. The focus should have been on purchasing power of the lowest coin of the realm. Each time it was passed the price of an item like an individual candy bar and everything else increased. What began at 5 cents in the 1940’s steadily increased to what it is today. The result has always been since it began devaluing the purchasing power of the dollar.