Bernie Sanders joins Cambridge rally for worker's rights, highlighting Massachusetts union battles

[Uncle Joe]

Before taking the stage at a rally for worker’s rights in Cambridge Sunday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders popped over to Starbucks with a megaphone and a Teamsters hat. At a unionized Starbucks location in Boston, Sanders joined a picket line that has gained national attention as the longest-running strike of its kind in the nation.

“When you are out here on this picket line, you are speaking not just for yourselves, you’re speaking for millions and millions of people in Boston and Vermont and all over this country,” Sanders told the workers, who reached day 36 of their strike on Sunday. “People are sick and tired of seeing the people on top do phenomenally well while they fall further and further behind.”

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The struggle, Sanders told the crowd, comes down to a battle between an “enormously powerful oligarchy” and working-class people who make their coffee and deliver their packages. Echoing the foundation of his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, Sanders emphasized the power of unions in the fight for universal health care, raising the minimum wage and eliminating student debt.

“The billionaires have the money, we have the people,” Sanders said. “Our job now, for the sake of our children and future generations, is to stand together and to proclaim loudly and clearly, as Woody Guthrie did a long time ago: This land is our land."

https://www.wgbh.org/news/news/2022/08/21/bernie-sanders-joins-cambridge-rally-for-workers-rights-highlighting-massachusetts-union-battles

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1. Bernie has always been a supporter of Unions

And the working everyday people.

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2. This man should have been the president. Great for Bernie sticking to principles.

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3. No offense to President Biden, who's doing everything to mix Trump's problems.