- In an interview with Vanity Fair, Sen.
Bernie Sanders saidDemocrats should support organized labor. - They need to back the working class, or continue to stay "corporately controlled."
Democrats are dealing with a $4, a continuing pandemic, and $4 — all with the 2022
Senator Bernie Sanders has a suggestion: The party should be lining up behind workers and unions.
In a new interview with $4, Sanders told Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen that it's "political suicide" to "turn your back on the working class."
Instead, it's "good
"I think it's the right thing to do from a policy position," Sanders told Vanity Fair.
He added: "I think if the Democrats don't do that immediately, they are going to look at a very, very bad 2022." Democrats have to choose, Sanders told Vanity Fair, between becoming a party for the working class or one that stays "corporately controlled" and "beholden" to rich contributors.
Sanders is a longtime labor advocate, and has thrown his support behind the $4 taking off in the last year. He recently joined the upstart Amazon
Most recently, Sanders has been putting pressure on the
While there's been an explosion of organizing — the National Labor Relations Board $4 a 57% increase in union election petitions from October to March — legislative progress on reforming labor law has been slow.
The pro-labor $4 has stalled since passing the House, $4. Jennifer Abruzzo, the Biden-appointed NLRB general counsel, $4, but the agency is dealing with underfunding and understaffing.
Sanders is throwing his all into ensuring the labor movement keeps skyrocketing. According to Vanity Fair, he reportedly has about 10 staffers "heavily focused on supporting labor efforts."
"In the year 2022, the United States, and, in fact, the rest of the world, face two very distinct political paths," Sanders said in $4.
One direction: "A growing movement toward oligarchy, in which a small number of incredibly wealthy and powerful billionaires own and control a very significant part of the
Then there's the other route, "the creation of a movement of working people and young people, who are today in ever increasing numbers fighting for justice, economic justice, racial justice, social justice, environmental justice."