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Old 06-06-2019, 07:46 AM
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Bernie Sanders calls out Walmart executives during their annual meeting
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“Walmart workers are sick and tired of being paid starvation wages while the Walton family, the wealthiest family in America, is worth over $170 billion,” Sanders told a group of Walmart workers during a rally Wednesday in Arkansas. “It is time for Walmart to pay all of its workers a living wage, give them a seat at the table, and allow part-time employees to work full-time jobs.”

While Walmart raised minimum pay to $11 an hour last year, it still lags behind competitors like Target and Amazon, both of which recently announced that they will pay at least $15 an hour. So far, Walmart has resisted pressure to do the same.

Walmart employees have been trying for years to get the company to listen to them at their annual shareholder meeting in Arkansas. They’ve introduced proposal after proposal, asking for higher pay and better working conditions. All have been voted down.

This year is the first time they will introduce a plan to give workers a seat on the company’s board — something no public US company has done, and no employee has yet proposed during a shareholder meeting.

“At a time of deepening racial and economic divide and insecurity, hourly associates can guide a more fair, inclusive and equitable corporate ecosystem that bridges differences,” the proposal reads.

The plan was filed by Walmart employee Cat Davis, who is also a leader for workers’ rights organization United for Respect. The proposal points out that Walmart’s lowest-paid workers are overwhelmingly female, black, and Latinx and that their low wages keep them living in poverty.
That's Bernie Sanders using his political power to amplify organizing and worker power. Here's how I know that it has a real use- not by itself, but with a message that has broad, actual, on the ground support, and in coalition with workers, putting political pressure on corporations locally.

Business Insider from Oct 2018:
Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 following pressure from Bernie Sanders
Quote:
Amazon has announced plans to raise the company's minimum wage in the US to $15, following sustained pressure from Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In a statement released Tuesday, Amazon said the salary increase, to more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25, would take effect on November 1.

Amazon said the change would affect more than 250,000 full- and part-time employees plus more than 100,000 seasonal staff members who work for Amazon over the holiday season.
More than a quarter million people were assisted- not alone, but with massive, real, broad support- by Sanders and Warren joining in that fight. We keep talking about progressives vs. centrists, identity politics, wine moms and "Bernie Bros"- the more than quarter-million people who work at Amazon who got a pay raise to feed their families aren't particularly any one of those demographics.... other than workers. Which most likely is the same grouping you're in as well.


Bloomberg from Oct 2018:
Bernie Sanders Asks McDonald's to Boost Wages to $15 an Hour
Food service and tech are both seeing big gains in unionization bids in the last few years. Much of this is due to continued work and effort on the ground, to raise the wage to $15 and to demand better, and to actually organize. To do that you need a broad and deep coalition of people- workers- with a common goal.

CNN Money from July 2018:
Disneyland agrees to pay its workers $15 an hour
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Minimum wage employees at Disneyland made $11 an hour. The deal immediately raises their pay 20% to $13.25 an hour. The $15 starting rate will go into effect on January 1, 2019. It will go up to $15.45 in June of 2020.

Disney said an employee making $11 today would earn an additional $8,000 a year.

The deal puts Disney on track to reach California's mandatory $15 an hour minimum wage three years before it goes into effect. It covers union workers in Disneyland jobs like attractions, store operations, custodial, costume, and transportation and parking.

"This agreement sets a new bar with minimum wages that are among the highest in the country," Disneyland president Josh D'Amaro said in a statement.

Disneyland has 30,000 workers, but the majority of hourly workers are represented by unions. Disney said wages for other hourly workers will be negotiated separately.

The labor fight got a public boost from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who pressured Disney to raise wages for workers in California and Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Sanders traveled to Anaheim last month and spoke at a rally that hundreds of Disneyland workers attended.

"The wages and benefits for its workers are atrocious," Sanders wrote in a Guardian op-ed criticizing the company and its CEO Bob Iger.
This is why I support Sanders' candidacy. Because by addressing class inequality and by relentlessly, consistently, unabashedly fighting for workers' rights, you fight for people who are next to you here in the working class. Which is the huge majority of people of all backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, orientations, and abilities. I support it because it has a sustained, unwavering, and growing coalition of working class people.
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