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Bernie Sanders: “What common sense suggests, you don't have to be the president of a union or the former head of the NLRB to understand…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2023
What common sense suggests, you don't have to be the president of a union or the former head of the NLRB to understand this, 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

Editor's note · Context

Sanders emphasizes the lack of power individual workers have without unions.

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