Comrade Bernie Sanders is having a rough month. First, he plunged in the polls. Then his campaign staffers demanded $15 per hour, so he cut their hours. Now, Bernie Sanders campaign is facing a federal complaint, accusing the Sanders campaign of retaliation, repudiation, interrogation, discipline, and discharge. Quiet the month, eh Bern? In some polls Sanders has been passed by both fake injun Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris. He’s really in trouble.
| Federal complaint filed against Comrade Bernie Sanders campaign |
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The accusations follow complaints from Sanders campaign employees, who claimed the campaign was paying “poverty wages.” Union members drafted a letter to Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir, which stated that field organizers “cannot be expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages.”
“Given our campaign’s commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour, we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team,” the letter added.
Sanders told the Des Moines Register that he was bothered that the complaints were made public.
“It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media,” Sanders said. “That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it’s improper.”