Employees of the headquarters of Bernie Sanders, who wants to raise the minimum salary, complain of low wages

Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders promised the American workers that he would set the minimum wage at 15 dollars an hour if he won the elections in the 2020 year, writes Fox News.

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But employees working on the Sanders election campaign say they would like him to do it now in relation to the people who work for him and began to pay them higher wages.

“Our campaign has committed to raising the cost of living to at least $15 an hour, and in light of this, we believe it is only fair that this commitment be made to our own team,” the workers said in a letter to Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir.

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Employees say their salary in the Sanders campaign is up to about 13 dollars per hour.

“Many staff in the field are struggling to survive financially, which is having a serious impact on the productivity and morale of our team. Some employees have already quit,” the workers’ letter says.

In the comments, Shakir said the opposite:

“We know our campaign offers wages and benefits that are competitive with other campaigns. Every campaigner, from the candidate on down, joined this movement to defeat Donald Trump and transform America. Bernie Sanders is the most pro-labor candidate running for president,” he said.

It is not known whether Sanders knew that the employees of his campaign were offended by him.

Note that recently the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted for thedraft bill on gradual increase of federal minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour. The current federal minimum wage is 7,25 dollars per hour and has not changed since 2009.

In addition, President Trump during the election campaign in Greenville, North Carolina, announced earlier this week that since his election in the United States, 6 million new jobs were created, and the country's unemployment rate in 3,7 was the lowest in the last decades.

Republican leaders said that raising the minimum wage would be “devastating” for middle-class families, citing research by the Congressional Budget Office (NWO). The CBO report says that the Democratic bill will raise wages for about 17 million people, but it will also reduce business income, raise consumer prices and reduce production in the country. Overall, the CBO said that this move would reduce the real family income by about 9 billion dollars to the 2025 year, or 0,1%.

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