Posted on 07/21/2019 12:21:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Bernie Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage, prompting mockery
Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced this weekend he will cut staffers' hours so that they can effectively be paid a $15-an-hour minimum wage, prompting mockery from critics who say the move is more evidence that Sanders' plan to raise the national minimum wage is hypocritical and would only lead to less work and more unemployment.
The Washington Post first reported last Thursday that Sanders' field staffers were upset that Sanders championed a $15 minimum wage on the campaign trail, and made headlines for railing against major corporations who pay "starvation wages" -- even as his own employees made "poverty wages."
In response, Sanders told The Des Moines Register he was "very proud" to lead the first major presidential campaign with unionized workers, but also "bothered" that news of the internal strife had spilled into the media.
The self-described socialist candidate said junior field organizers earn roughly $36,000 per year in salary, with employer-paid health care and sick leave. But he acknowledged that their salary can effectively dip below $15 per hour if staffers work much more than 40 hours per week, which is common on presidential campaigns.
The solution is to "limit the number of hours staffers work to 42 or 43 each week to ensure theyre making the equivalent of $15 an hour," he told the Register's Brianne Pfannenstiel.
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This is proof Democrats do not understand economics.
These are seasonal jobs. None of them should be making $15 an hour.Interesting.
What should the hourly rate be for seasonal workers your Majesty?
They will now be forced into a new tax brcket and have to pay their fair share
I make 9.30 an hour and much more per week than when I was working at 13.oo an hour.
With the Democrats, these news items just write themselves.
Yep. The bennies tend to get cut too. Bernie's looking like one of those mean old capitalist bosses he's always on about.
No offense- but Bernie couldn’t qualify for a sales clerk job in a Dollar Store. Nothing but a joke and a waste of everyone’s time.
By cutting hours, he won’t have to pay healthcare. This moron is smart, but he just proved his ideas can’t work in his own campaign. Socialist Schmuck!
They should also get FREE healthcare.
Sanders’ position is consistent with the main core of socialism to spend other peoples’ money until it is gone. But, when confronted with having to spend his own money to pay his staff a “living wage”, Sanders suddenly becomes a fiscal conservative. No doubt he is looking ahead to the day he ends his quest for the Presidency. At that point, he keeps the money remaining in his campaign coffers.
Surely he gives them FREE health insurance, FREE college, FREE food, FREE housing and all of those other “Benefits.”
How socialist of him.
Yep. And they’ll all get off at 4:00pm instead of 5:00.
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