Posted on 07/19/2019 4:47:27 PM PDT by springwater13
Sen. Bernie Sanders is a staple on the front lines of the labor fight, leading the charge in Washington and around the country to raise the minimum wage for workers to $15 an hour. But within his own campaign, which unionized earlier this year, tense discussions over pay have spilled out into public view.
The dispute threatens to undermine Sanders' political message and, if it were to escalate, his ability to credibly advocate for workers around the country currently engaged in their own struggles to negotiate higher wages and better working conditions.
Word of the discontent first emerged publicly on Thursday night, in a Washington Post report detailing campaign field staff's frustration that their base pay, in some instances, does not match the $15-an-hour mandate that Sanders, as a legislator and candidate, has pressed for as the base minimum wage across the country. As the campaign ramps up, field staff are often required to work 10-hour, 6-day weeks, driving down their average hourly compensation.
A source tells CNN that campaign officials were in a room with representatives from the union, discussing the topic, when the campaign was first made aware of the Post's story.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I’m confused. If they are working 10 hour days 6 days a week, aren’t they getting time and a half over time? Are they hourly? Why would working more hours drive down their hourly pay? Something doesn’t add up.
they are likely on salary..
Exactly. They are “salaried professionals,” rather than hourly help. Often, salaried professionals, who are expected to put in the time necessary for the job, actually wind up with a modest or even meager amount per hour.
He made sure his daughter got paid huge money from the school his wife drove into the ground... for teaching woodshop.
We really need to focus leftists to eat their own much more often.
JoMa
Yes, let the commie sharks keep talking and feeding on each other....Trump will keep throwing blood in the water....MAGA!
Which is why I get paid by the hour.
You give me a bunch of work, I work many hours...
Socialist boss: Money and nice things for me but not for thee.
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.
I guess the only unanswered question is, who ordered the hit?!
If you believe you or someone you know has been denied proper wages under the FLSA, you may file a complaint by mail or in person at an office of the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor. In the complaint you will need to include the following information:
Maybe President Trump can have the Dept of alabor put this complaint at the top of their to-do list.
Stupid Bernie workers. Don’t they realize that they are expected to sacrifice everything for the Revolution? I’m actually surprised that they are paid any money at all.
Perhaps those complaining workers are actually counter-revolutionary wreckers. Bernie, be merciless! Purge them all!
The FR thread referenced below indicates that federal employees who move from one part of the country to another can expect a cost of living adjustment on their paychecks appropriate for their new location.
USDA staffers quit en masse as Trump administration eyes moving offices out of DC
Noting that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to decide a national minimum wage, desperate career Democrats actually trying to exploit low-information voters by promising them a higher but still unconstitutional national minimum wage imo, the question is this.
Instead of Democrats trying to win votes on a one-size-fits-all national minimum wage, why shouldn’t minimum wage likewise be adjusted for location cost of living?
This is why local governments and states should experiment with their own minimum wage, the states uniquely having the 10th Amendment-protected power to do so anyway.
10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Justice Brandeis had put it this way about the unique power of each sovereign state to conduct its own socioeconomic experiments, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of each state want.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
Insights welcome.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
I know many people say that part of this push to $15/hour minimum wage is tied to union contracts that will push up many union wages. And I get the hypocrisy of a candidate with a message “for thee but not for me”.
We just renewed our company’s workers compensation insurance. In California the premium is tied to compensation. For factory and warehouse workers, the premium is close to $33 per $100 in wages. Yes, 33% premium on top of the salary (on top of the employers share of taxes, on top of disability insurance, etc). That’s 4 months wages, just for workers comp insurance. If you bump wages 50%, you are bumping the cost of insurance 50%. It is unsustainable.
And to be sure, nobody here makes less than $15 an hour as it is. But the wage pressure, coupled with the ancillary increases such as insurance and taxes, will eventually have cause/effect and equal and opposite reaction - if it hasn’t already.
And they should get free health care.
I used to tell eager young folks when u go on salary you get a ten hour a week raise
Bernie, the richest commie in Congress and he pays his “lumpenproletariat” bubkes. Typical red shit.
Looks to me that Bernie Sanders is against unions and the $15/hr living wage and of course against the proletariat.
There was a saxophonist in the 60’s who had a tune that was popular. I always liked the title: “Volunteered Slavery”.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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