(McClatchy DC Bureau)
Katie Glueck and Alex Roarty January 22, 2019 05:51 PM
Unionizing. Paying interns $15 an hour. Ensuring time off. Institutionalizing salary transparency.
To staffers on presidential campaigns past, who were long accustomed to brutal hours and low pay, that was the stuff of liberal fantasies.
But this cycle, there is an intensifying conviction among progressive operatives that internal campaign culture should reflect the very values that 2020 Democratic hopefuls passionately tout on the trail.
“Every candidate should practice what they preach,” said Rebecca Katz, a veteran progressive strategist. “If they’re talking about the American Dream, they should provide it for their own staffers as well.”
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