Bernie Sanders

This Committee, by the way, must do everything possible to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

CEO compensation right now, 400 times more than the average American worker.

All that unions are about is not complicated. It is people coming together to fight for a contract which guarantees them certain basic rights.

I would hope that Senator Cassidy and others would understand that is not only unacceptable behavior, but illegal behavior.

There is a class war going on, whether we want to recognize it or not.

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.

The very rich know nothing about how most people live, couldn't care less about real people, and firmly believe they have a divine right to rule.

It's time for politicians to heed workers' demands.

Federal labor law still contains racist and sexist exclusions rooted in Jim Crow. We need to write new rules that protect all workers--Black, brown, and white--to ensure we can all thrive.

It's ridiculous that the future for tens of thousands of workers in a company like Starbucks is up to the whims of just one person--Howard Schultz--who continues to oversee a company that breaks the law without sufficient consequence.

With the support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act championed by Senator Sanders...

If a corporation is going to pride itself on corporate social responsibility in its mission statement or offer grand announcements on inclusivity, respect and a commitment to treating workers well, and if they're going to call their…

This is why we need to pass the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act as soon as possible--to protect collective action, remove the barriers to worker voice and hold employers accountable when they violate workers'…

We need to pass the Richard Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act as soon as possible to protect collective action.

Employers spend $340 million per year on law firms and consultants to help them intimidate workers.

Unions are the single most powerful tool we have to demand fair, just, and equitable treatment of workers.

The response of companies like Starbucks... has been to turn around and throw a litany of dirty tactics at these employees.

We cannot let them buy the basic rights of working people.

It is no coincidence that labor standards have plummeted as the percentage of people in unions has declined in America.

In this country, workers have the right to form unions, and we are going to do everything we can to make sure that they can exercise that Constitutional right.

We are going to stand with working people and do everything that we can to create an economy that works for all of us and not just a few.

We are seeing levels of income and wealth inequality that have never been seen in the history of the United States of America.

This Committee, by the way, must do everything possible to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

CEO compensation right now, 400 times more than the average American worker.

The first part was to issue a subpoena to Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, to ask him why he thought his company could violate labor law, Federal labor law, with impunity.