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On the recordMarch 8, 2023
What common sense suggests... is that if a worker alone is in trouble, he or she does not have a lot of power to ask for better wages.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders discusses the power imbalance faced by individual workers.

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