{"id":180188,"date":"2017-06-29T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/29\/dnc-fails-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:45:00","slug":"dnc-fails-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/29\/dnc-fails-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Fails Where the Rubber Meets the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After Barack Obama stood up Tom Perez for DNC chair in order to prosecute a petty f%$# you to the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, Perez promised to end unpaid internships at the DNC.<\/div>\n<p>Unpaid internships at a place like the DNC are dishonest (they are doing real work, not just shadowing people and learning), an abusive way of dealing with labor, and discriminatory, because poor people cannot afford to work for free.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/paydayreport.com\/unpaidinternsatdnc\/\">Tom Perez was just kidding<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>While running for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez pledged to eliminate unpaid internships at DNC. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillennials need more than just a seat at the table, they need a voice in every part of the conversation at the DNC,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPerez\/status\/834619444974465024\"> tweeted<\/a> Perez during a DNC chairman\u2019s debate in February. \u201cAnd creating a paid internship program is a part of my plan to bring in more millennials.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s been nearly four months since Tom Perez became chairman, and now the DNC\u2014 under Perez\u2019s watch\u2014is employing another set of unpaid summer interns and is currently accepting applications for unpaid internships for the fall. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.org\/page\/internship-faq\">the DNC\u2019s website<\/a>, unpaid interns are required to work 40 hours per week, leaving little time for interns to work part-time jobs to pay their bills. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the internships meet the U.S. Department of Labor criteria that determine whether the internships financially benefit the employer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/regs\/compliance\/whdfs71.pdf\">The DOL\u2019s six point test<\/a> is intended to clarify whether unpaid or educational arrangements are truly beneficial to the intern, and whether or not interns must be paid at least a minimum wage. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that money is tight, but paying these people minimum wage is just a rounding error of the money kicked back to various Democratic Party consultants.<\/p>\n<p>There is no excuse for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Barack Obama stood up Tom Perez for DNC chair in order to prosecute a petty f%$# you to the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, Perez promised to end unpaid internships at the DNC. Unpaid internships at a place like the DNC are dishonest (they are doing real work, not just shadowing people and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[450,364,588,387,374],"class_list":["post-180188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-employment","tag-evil","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}