Bernie Sanders bashed Walmart at their annual meeting and pushed for a $15 minimum wage
Senator Bernie Sanders crashed a Walmart shareholder meeting on Wednesday to push for a $15 minimum wage. Bernie Sanders spoke at Walmart’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, where he called for the world’s largest retailer by sales to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour and give hourly workers a seat on the board of directors.
“Walmart pays many of its employees starvation wages,” Sanders said from behind a podium at the meeting on Wednesday morning in Rogers, Arkansas. “Walmart can afford to pay its employees a living wage of at least $15 an hour. That is not a radical idea.” Walmart was ready for Sanders' appearance and CEO Doug McMillon spent much of the 30-minute meeting defending the company’s treatment of workers and touting the ways in which Walmart has invested in pay, benefits and training. He pointed to the $800 million in bonuses it paid to hourly workers last year, plus a tuition reimbursement program, an expanded, six-week paid maternity leave and a $5,000 stipend for adoption services.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, another presidential candidate running for the party’s 2020 nomination, has similarly spoken out on the issue. “When I was a kid, a minimum wage job in America would support a family of three. It would pay a mortgage, keep the utilities on, and put food on the table,” she said at a speech on the campaign trail in January. “Today a minimum wage job in America will not keep a momma and a baby out of poverty.
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