'Democrats for Worker Exploitation'
Amazing the hypocrisy of the groups that are out there promoting policies like a higher minimum wage, when they don't even pay minimum wage themselves!
An article in the Madison, WI Isthmus newspaper documents how Grassroots Campaigns, a contractor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee failed to pay minimum wage as it worked to organize support for the group. Here is an excerpt from the Isthmus website, which has the complete article and full documentation:
A group that raises money for Democratic Congressional candidates uses a canvassing company that pays some workers submimium wage, in apparent violation of Wisconsin state law, to talk about the need to raise the federal minimum wage, Isthmus newspaper has learned. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), based in Washington, D.C., has hired Grassroots Campaigns, a Boston-based for-profit company with operations in 18 U.S. cities, to conduct canvassing on its behalf. The DCCC's "New Direction for American" agenda, which provides the talking points canvassers are taught to use to solicit contributions, includes a call to "Raise the minimum wage."
