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[–] BoiseNTheHood 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wonder how many of them are his "underpaid" shills working for $12/hour.
[–] BoiseNTheHood ago
Bernie: "Minimum wage should be $15/hour!"
Bernie: "$15/hour? Are you nuts? I'm not paying that!"
[–] edistojim 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
If you are a supporter of the $15 minimum wage, you should pay your people $15 per hour. Intern or not, doesn't matter if you own a ditch digging service, if its something you are campaigning for, then don't be a hypocrite and talk out of both sides of your mouth. He wants MickyDs to do it but doesn't believe he needs to…..typical politician , thats for thee, not for me.
[–] ShadowMongoose ago
Interns are a tightly defined class of workers that are not employees and are thus explicitly exempt from minimum wage laws, just as servers (waitresses/waiters), and other tipped employees are exempt from minimum wage laws (though being actual employees they must be paid a minimum commonly referred to as the "waiter wage").
Any new laws regarding minimum wages will almost certainly maintain those exemptions, with interns still being defined as non-employees that are not due any wage, and tipped employees being paid a lower (though possibly higher than current) minimum.
So unless you have some evidence that his future bill includes a requirement to pay interns, and to do so at the new minimum wage, you are talking out of your ass.
Interns are an exception by law, just because you want to deny that fact doesn't make it so.
[–] Godsmouth 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Is your point that if elected president he would abandon the effort to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr? You have to remember that he is running a campaign that is competing with some of the most well funded candidates ever seen to this point. Clinton's campaign is projected to raise ungodly amounts of money.
I'm curious if you've looked at what the other candidates are paying their interns? Also, you got this right from his website, so at least he is being transparent.
[–] FreeSpeachRocks 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Coming soon... Intern at McDonald's... learn how to cook fries and flips hamburgers... we may even teach you to work the drawer...
[–] ShadowMongoose ago
Intern is a legally defined and regulated term. You cannot just choose not to pay an employee by calling them an "intern".
There are interns at McDonald's but only for managerial and corporate positions.
[–] secretsquirrel2 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Many legislators don't pay their interns at all. Most law students would work a Washington internship for free and more than a few students would be happy to pay for the privilege. A senate internship is a very valuable commodity. It says a lot about Senator Sanders that he is willing to stretch his administrative budget to not only pay his interns, but to pay them a better than minimum wage. In doing this he is opening up the opportunity to intern at the senate to those students who cannot afford the luxury of working for free.
So where I think you meant to smear the Senator, you have actually done just the opposite. **Thank you for showing us yet another instance of Bernie setting a positive example for his fellow legislators. **
[–] TexasComments [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Don't bullshit someone who has worked there, the law students working for free are doing so because they know that after six months they can start applying to DC law firms for six figure salaries if they worked for the right committees or congressmen.
Also to clarify he gets between $3M and $4.3M a year for his senate salaries in Vermont, a state so small you can drive through it in less than five hours end to end.
[–] secretsquirrel2 ago
It's not bullshit to say that there are law students who cannot work for six months for free.
[–] darwin_prime 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
This is exactly $12 an hour more than I got during my congressional internship. Probably not the result OP is hoping for, but my only thought after reading this is that I wish I'd have been in Bernie's district office instead.