A $15 minimum wage is a centerpiece of Sanders' platform, but field organizers were being paid an average of less than $13 an hour.
The Bernie Sanders campaign and a union representing campaign staffers have reached an agreement to pay field organizers the equivalent of at least $15 per hour.
Sanders has made a $15 per hour minimum wage and workers rights more broadly centerpieces of his campaign. A $15 minimum wage, and workers' rights more broadly, are centerpieces of Sanders' platform. But field organizers were being paid an average of less than $13 an hour,In a CNN interview Tuesday morning, Sanders announced that the campaign reached a deal with the union that would pay field organizers an annual salary equivalent to $15
"Both the campaign staff and management have engaged in this process in good faith and to achieve a mutually agreed upon outcome. This is what democracy in the workplace looks like," said Jonathan Williams, a spokesman for the union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400.
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