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Related: About this forum'Fifteen Bucks and a Union': Bernie Sanders Marches With Striking Workers
'Fifteen Bucks and a Union': Bernie Sanders Marches With Striking Workers'Thank you all for coming out and standing up for justice, standing up for dignity, and for saying loudly and clearly that people in this country that work 40 hours a week deserve a living wage.'
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 * Common Dreams * by Nadia Prupis
As thousands of low-paid workers staged demonstrations across the U.S. on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke to a Fight for $15 rally in Washington, D.C. to credit their movement with recent victories and reiterate his support for a $15 federal minimum wage.
"Thank you all for coming out and standing up for justice, standing up for dignity, and for saying loudly and clearly that people in this country that work 40 hours a week deserve a living wage," Sanders, who is running for president as a Democrat, told the crowd as they marched in the rain on Capitol Hill.
Among those who walked off the job on Tuesday to demand a livable wage and the right to unionize were U.S. Senate cafeteria workers, who are employed as federal contractorswhich means they get few benefits and no bargaining rights.
"What you are doing and workers all over the United States are doing, you are having a profound impact," Sanders said. "People are raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. And you know who started it? You did. You started the movement."
"Now we've got to finish the job," he said. "Fifteen bucks and a union."
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'Fifteen Bucks and a Union': Bernie Sanders Marches With Striking Workers (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Nov 2015
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tecelote
(5,122 posts)1. Bernie Paying Interns MORE Than His Own Proposals for Raising the Minimum Wage to $15! Go Bernie!
Check it out here by sabrina 1:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251791029
Compared to:
TIME MAG: Hillary Clintons Campaign Asked If an Intern Could Get Paid by Her College
Clinton campaign lawyers argue that the student should be permitted to accept the $3,000 stipend and the college credit without either being designated as in-kind contributions to the campaign because the university did not condition the availability of the stipend upon the political nature of the internship.
http://time.com/4098966/hillary-clinton-unpaid-intern-fec/
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)2. Cool. thanks for the link.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)3. K&R
oops I just duplicate posted this same video
Response to Cheese Sandwich (Reply #3)
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)5. no problemo. :-) nt
Omaha Steve
(99,494 posts)6. K&R!
Autumn
(44,980 posts)7. imagine that. A man puts on his comfortable shoes and walks that picket line
merrily
(45,251 posts)8. Fifteen bucks and union. Great slogan!
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)9. Kick
I like this