Bye, Bernie!

[SunsetBengal]

(07-26-2019, 01:16 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: CNBC reports no positions were cut as part of the agreement.

"No hours or positions are being cut to accommodate the salary increase, according to Williams."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/bernie-sanders-strikes-deal-with-campaign-union-for-15-minimum-wage.html

I can't find anything about reduction in number of positions, but hours were certainly capped.

https://dentonrc.com/opinion/columnists/marc-thiessen-bernie-sanders-runs-into-socialist-reality/article_0b32d7de-bff3-5ce4-904d-5f523d2563d0.html

Quote:When the Sanders campaign offered to raise salaries to that level, the union rejected the offer. Why? Because, The Post reports, “the raise would have elevated field staff to a pay level responsible for paying more of their own health care costs.” It turns out that Sanders pays only 85% of health-care premiums for campaign staff making more than $36,000 — despite campaigning on a promise of free health care for all with “no premiums, no deductibles, no co-payments, no out-of-pocket expenses.”

So what was Sanders’ solution? First, he cut the hours of his field staffers from 60 to about 43 a week — which meant the campaign could say it was paying $15 an hour without actually increasing field organizers’ pay. Then on Monday, his campaign finally gave in and agreed to raise salaries to $42,000, preserve full health premium coverage and limit workers’ hours to 50 per week.