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Bernie Sanders: “Just dealing with General Electric, the point here again is that sometimes people turn on the television and they say…”

On the recordJune 2, 2003
Just dealing with General Electric, the point here again is that sometimes people turn on the television and they say there is NBC. Well, no, it is not NBC. This is a subsidiary of General Electric. For many, many years, General Electric has been an anti-union company. The fact of the matter is that if you are a member of a union in the United States today, you earn approximately 25 percent more than an American worker doing similar work who is not a member of a union. That is just a fact. I would ask my friend from Ohio how often he has seen programs on General Electric's media or in fact any other media talking about the advantages of being a member of a union? Now, I myself have never seen a program like that. Maybe my friend has.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the influence of General Electric on media and its anti-union stance.

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