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jason1637 said:
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-bernie-sanders-campaign-as-workers-demand-the-15-hourly-pay-the-candidate-has-proposed-for-employees-nationwide/2019/07/18/3a6df9f4-a966-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?outputType=amp
Sanders staffers want a $15 min wage.

That is a bit misleading. Sanders staffers already have at least $15 minimum for interns. What they want is that it applies to all campaign staffers from all the nominees. Right now, only Sanders, Warren and Castro staffers are unionized.

However, Field organizers are not paid by the hour, but get a fixed 36k yearly salary, regional field directors 48k and statewide field directors 90k yearly. Since Field organizers often work 60 hours a week, that amounts to less than $13 an hours. Hence why Field organizers want an understandable raise. This will probably also push the regional field directors to ask for a raise, as it will annihilate the income difference between them and the Field organizers. Reading further, as expected, they do. 46k for Field organizers and 62.4k for field directors. Additionally to this, for healthcare coverage for everybody who earns less than 60k and $0.58 per mile fuel coverage.

As an European, I can fully agree on the healthcare and fuel coverage. We have them too, and they are helping a great deal. The wages rise up a bit much in just one go in my opinion (In Europe, such a big raise is often cut up into several smaller ones to make it more bearable for the employer), but it's understandable since it's a necessity to keep his 15 dollar per hour pledge.

In any case, the wages of his staff are probably quite a bit higher than for everybody else except maybe Castro and Warren since theirs are also unionized.