Basically, the unionized campaign organizers want the $15 dollar wage that Sanders advocates for all workers, but his campaign has been reluctant to agree. Some might see this as hypocritical; I couldn't possibly comment.
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Sanders Campaign Roiled by Conflicts Between Organizers, Management over Wages
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Basically, the unionized campaign organizers want the $15 dollar wage that Sanders advocates for all workers, but his campaign has been reluctant to agree. Some might see this as hypocritical; I couldn't possibly comment.
seems like they are paid a salary, but they're having to work a lot of extra hours per week?
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Yeah, I think this is one of those cases where you really need to practice what you preach.
Who must have agitated the waters there anyway?
Who must have agitated the waters there anyway?
Between this and the Twitch thing Bernie's team is showing all of the management competence you'd expect from the leadership team behind Our Revolution, the Sanders Institute and Burlington College.
I would not be shocked if the Twitch thing is what sparked them to just go public- this type of intra-campaign dispute spilling out in the open is not common. We didn't hear about the AA outreach issues until well after the 2016 campaign was done.
Figuring your salary into hourly allotments does not make sense with his proposed minimum though does it? Having been salary for years I hate it, but it's not like I pretend my pay is fluctuating based on the demand for hours.
It has to right? Otherwise, a lot of employers are going to be circumventing the minimum wage if it reaches $15/hr by using his example he's setting.
there's a set salary for Field Workers but its clear they didn't plan for the amount of time being put into the work per week
renegotiation over the Field Workers pay probably needs to happen
its weird, it seems like some of the workers are salary, and some are hourly pay?
renegotiation over the Field Workers pay probably needs to happen
its weird, it seems like some of the workers are salary, and some are hourly pay?
A field organizer works alot of hours. If they got payed hourly then they would definitely be making overtime all the time. No political campaign is gonna pay that.
Hmmm, this is less clear cut than "We aren't getting paid $15/hr"
Shouldn't surprise anyone. Sanders did the bare minimum to build infrastructure in 2016, and I've heard it isn't much better this time around.
It does sound that way or the plan was for that.
I've worked on a campaign before and field organizers are normally Salary cause they are contracted for the whole campaign. The only people I know that work hourly are paid canvassers cause they normally work like 1 day.
Well, it kind of fucks with your $15 minimum wage proposal then, doesn't it?
Your vendetta against people voluntarily donating their time to a campaign they believe in is really, really strange.
I mean.... This is a pretty different job then the people Sanders wants to give a 15 dollar minimum wage to. A field organizer is being paid to basically live a political campaign until the candidate either wins or loses. They work long hours. 60+ overtime is a guarantee.
Which side are you on in this conflict?
And where's Bernie in all this? Is this beneath his notice like the sexual harassment aspect of his '16 campaign? He's the captain of this ship.
If you ever want to address the issue instead of analyzing my motives, feel free.
It's fine to disagree, but please don't act like my position is a mystery - I am a firm believer in labor laws and I don't think campaign jobs, especially not primary campaign jobs are these amazingly unique beasts that must be exempt from them.
Ah, so Sanders meant that only some people should get the $15 minimum wage!
Wages should be adjusted to the reality of what the average number of hours worked in a given week are for the salaried worker. An intern should not be making more cause they are hourly.
Not sure why. Salaried workers making below the (proposed) minimum wage is kind of fucked up. It's also well below the sallaried overtime rule President Obama's DoL implemented shortly before Trump took over.
Any action the union could seemingly take ultimately hurts the campaign which puts the jobs in peril.
Hire more people to bring workload down; costs money
Pay people more; costs money
Strike; leaves the campaign running only on volunteer power and or having to hire scabs.
Hire more people to bring workload down; costs money
Pay people more; costs money
Strike; leaves the campaign running only on volunteer power and or having to hire scabs.
Nobody goes into a Field Organizer position thinking they'll just be working 40. Not saying it's right by any means, but in that position it's always made clear that you'll be working lots of hours and you don't qualify for OT.
When my wife did it locally here, she ended up at like $8/hr when it was all said and done, even though she was salaried.
I mean, that's literally the argument for any salaried job with too many hours.
Honestly, his campaign rakes in too much money that there's no real excuse for this. They need to just take care of it already.
People donate their time to animal hospitals, meals on wheels, habitat for humanity, and yes political campaigns. They do it because they want to help something out in their spare time, not because they need to make a living doing it. Time is money. Money is Time. People are just donating their time directly instead of donating money for the campaign to buy other people's time.
Well if you are running on the 1% exploiting the masses, don't pay like you the 1%. Pay based on the hours you expect them to work.
"Donating their time" this is a paid occupation, and if the people who are doing your campaign can't even get $15/hr why should I trust that the whole country can?
can't have the most cash on hand and not strut the stump
edit: gotta stop taking these articles at face value
edit: gotta stop taking these articles at face value
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Idk, I imagine pretty decent. The field organizers from when I worked on a campaign made like 4k a month salary.
A field organizer should not be a tentpole for fucking with standards. They're not emergency workers.
This reminds me of the justification for game dev crunch.
I mean if we both accept that this is "wrong" then obviously we should fix it even if it "imperils" the campaign.
Guilt-tripping people into working unpaid OT for a "good cause" does not make for a good standards setting example.
