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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-2009/
- Published: 2019-07-20T18:30:27.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-20T22:16:34.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Politics, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

> Staffers for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have drafted a letter \[…\] complaining that they are making “poverty wages,” and **demanding he pay them a $15 per hour minimum wage.**

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Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders

> \[…\]A draft letter union members earlier had prepared \[…\] said that the 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.”  
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> The draft letter estimated that field organizers were working 60 hours per week at minimum, dropping their average hourly pay to less than $13\. It said that “many field staffers are barely managing to survive financially, which is severely impacting our team’s productivity and morale. Some field organizers have already left the campaign as a result.”  
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> Sanders has committed to supporting a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour — despite evidence from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that it would lead to massive job losses. (As the *New York Times* noted last month, the CBO found that a $15 per hour minimum wage — which the Democrat-run House of Representatives will vote on soon — **“would lift 1.3 million people out of poverty but also put an estimated 1.3 million Americans out of work.”)**  
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> The Sanders campaign also took [pride](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/sen-bernie-sanderss-presidential-campaign-staff-will-join-a-union/2019/03/15/5371cc7e-4768-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.63485193a382&ref=goodoil.news) earlier this year in being the first to unionize its workforce.   
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> [Breitbart](https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/19/bernie-sanders-staff-complain-of-poverty-wages-demand-15-hour/?utm%5Fsource=newsletter&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=daily&utm%5Fcampaign=20190719&utm%5Fcontent=B)