“The goal here is very simple. It’s to say that if you work 40 hours a week in America, you should not live in poverty,” Sen. Bernie Sanders says about his push to get Walmart to adopt a $15 minimum wage.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders came face-to-face with Walmart's corporate leadership during the retail giant's annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday in Arkansas, where he introduced an employee proposal to put workers on the company's board and asked for a raise to its minimum wage.
Speaking as a proxy for a Walmart employee, Sanders offered the resolution -- which would be defeated in an afternoon vote -- from the floor of a small, carpeted ballroom with Rachel Brand, a top company executive and former Justice Department official, presiding onstage. After giving the formal pitch, Sanders delivered a more cutting message to Walmart officials.
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