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On the recordMay 4, 2022
when the middle class of this country is struggling, when people are working longer hours for lower wages, when half of our people live paycheck to paycheck, when people cannot afford health care, they cannot afford childcare, they are finding it hard to fill up their gas tanks, all over this country there is a growing movement on the part of workers to try to organize and form unions.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders describes the struggles of the middle class and the rise of union movements.

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