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By: Shaun Robinson; VTDigger For our members of Congress representing Vermont and Massachusetts are calling on Corbel Capital Partners — which owns LandAir, the Williston-based trucking company that filed for bankruptcy in July — to provide severance pay to laid-off employees. In a letter Friday to Corbel’s managing partner and CEO, Jeffrey Schwartz, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; U.S. Rep.

By: William James; Reuters LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Veteran U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking British workers at a trade union rally in London on Wednesday, saying workers need to stand together to fight back at what he called “corporate greed” and billionaires amassing more wealth. The event was hosted by the RMT union which has been at the

The Vermont senator rose from the political margins to become hugely influential within the American left. As he prepares to speak at a London rally, he explains why unions on both sides of the Atlantic must reassert their power By: Owen Jones; The Guardian Both are unlikely political sensations who were long consigned to the fringes: Bernie Sanders, an octogenarian

By: Isabel Schonemann; My Champlain Valley Senator Bernie Sanders met with some of Vermont’s healthcare providers and educators to discuss what can be done about the state’s current healthcare crisis. Among the topics discussed was that medical schools don’t have the funding to upkeep their nursing educator staff, and they don’t have the resources to take on as many new

By: Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman; Washington Post   Earlier this summer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met with civil society leaders from Brazil who warned that President Jair Bolsonaro might not accept a loss in elections set for October. This has been widely discussed in international media, and Sanders came away from the meeting convinced that it’s not just idle

By: Lexi McMenamin; TeenVogue The weekend that the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act – itself a reined-in version of President Biden’s proposed Build Back Better Act – during a marathon voting session, while most Senate Democrats were preemptively ready to celebrate the bill’s passage, there was a notable naysayer amongst them. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the former presidential candidate, spent the voting