Not unlike his and his fellow millionaires' refusal to pay higher taxes unless the government forces them to
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I can’t hear you!
Sanders campaign workers complain that they’re being paid less than the $15 Bernie minimum.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign staffers claim they’re really getting berned — by not being paid the $15-an-hour minimum wage the democratic socialist advocates for all workers.
The unionized employees — known as the bottom-rung “field organizers” — say they work a minimum of 60 hours of a week, which drops their average hourly pay to less than $13, according to a new report by the Washington Post.
“Many field staffers are barely managing to survive financially, which is severely impacting our team’s productivity and morale,” union members said in a draft letter that will soon be sent to campaign manager Faiz Shakir. “Some field organizers have already left the campaign as a result.”
The staffers say their work conditions fly in the face of Sanders’ campaign platform when it comes to fair pay — he has marched with McDonald’s employees for better wages and has slammed Walmart executives for paying “starvation wages.”
The independent from Vermont has also led the fight to boost the current minimum wage, which stands at $7.25 an hour, to $15.
Field organizers, often 20-something-year-olds who uproot their lives and spend long days on the front lines of the campaign, are paid a set annual salary of $36,000, while interns and canvassers make $15 an hour and bargaining unit deputies rake in $100,000 a year, according to the collective bargaining agreement.
FWIW located the candidate in Concord, New Hampshire, where he was conducting a book sale/meet and greet with two fat waitresses and a dishwasher repairman who had just been leaving, until he’d discovered that the doors had been locked from the outside, and sat down.
“Look,” Sanders told our reporter, “these little shits are just out of college, with degrees in pottery and minors in gender studies and dance; who else would hire their useless ass? For thirty-six thou a year! Hell, they couldn’t operate a floor polisher at Walmarts, and they’re complaining? I only hire them as an act of royal beneficence, and they used to know that.
“So they have to ring doorbells — so what? They grew up ringing doorbells, for crissake, demanding free candy, and I’m just asking them to do what they already know how to do. They should be on their goddamn knees before me, singing hosannahs and anointing my feet with polar bear grease, but instead they’re skulking off to the WaPo and whining about their allowance. If one of these little cretins wants more money, he can just call his mommy — that’s why she put him on her call plan to begin with.
“You gonna buy a book? Otherwise I gotta go; I’d due in Biden Falls, way the fuck up in the White Mountains, and because of that dumb broad AOC opening her pie hole I can’t fly there or even drive, noooo, it’s ‘Bernie on the goddamn train day’, with a five-mile hike once I hit the terminal. She thinks Pelosi’s been hard on her? Wait’ll she sees what happens when I’m president: straight back to that shit hole of a country she came from, the second I’m sworn in.”
Mr. Sanders left then, leaving his coffee tab on the table. Our reporter picked it up.
