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Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has been one of the nation’s leading advocates pushing to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, but campaign staffers say the senator isn’t even paying his own staff that rate.

According to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Post, the campaign has been rocked by an ongoing labor dispute since the beginning of May, with unionized staffers demanding the senator treat employees the same way Sanders has been pushing large corporations to—giving workers higher wages.

A draft letter, obtained by the Post, was addressed to campaign manager Faiz Shakir from union members. It said that low-level staffers “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 authors wrote.

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/19/ber...r-minimum-wage/