Yesterday, news broke out that the union for Bernie Sanders campaign is demanding that Sanders provide his staff with the same $15 minimum wage he is pushing nationally.
In addition, the campaigns’ union (UFCW Local 400) is asking for the Sanders campaign to cover additional healthcare costs for employees.
Both demands are key talking-points of the Vermont Senator who has rallied against the likes of McDonald’s and Walmart for providing non-union jobs at “less than living wages.”
Despite touting his campaign as the “first unionized campaign” of the cycle, Sanders finds himself engaging in the same practices he rallies against.
His lowest-level field organizers make roughly $10 an hour on 60 hour weeks without healthcare coverage.
Responding to the criticism from UFCW Local 400, the Bernie campaign offered to bump the salaries of only their lowest employees to the $15 threshold on the condition that they work 60 hours and six days a week.
Not surprisingly, the union immediately declined.
Bernie Sanders has long presented himself as the “defender of the 40-hour workweek” and pushed for mandatory paid vacations for every U.S. worker. He’s even gone on to market it as necessary to “family values.”
So what does it say about Bernie Sanders that he cares so little for his staffers that they have to live a life of “poverty” and “inhumane” hours?
Other than the fact that he is a hypocrite?
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