Column: At a subsidiary of a $4-billion corporation, these low-wage workers are striking for better pay
By: Michael Hiltzik; Los Angeles Times Cristina Lujan, 46, has worked on the line at the Jon Donaire Desserts plant in Santa Fe Springs for 19 years, nearly half her life, making and decorating cakes for food chains such as Ralphs, Walmart and Baskin-Robbins. Since Nov. 3, however, she has been walking a picket line outside the plant, protesting
Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’
By: Steven Greenhouse; The Guardian Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Democrats to make “a major course correction” that focuses on fighting for America’s working class and standing up to “powerful corporate interests” because the Democrats’ legislative agenda is stalled and their party faces tough prospects in this November’s elections. The White House is likely to see his comments as a shot
Sen. Sanders and state leaders to discuss nursing workforce crisis
By: WCAX News Team; WCAX Sen. Bernie Sanders will join Vermont state leaders Monday to discuss the nursing workforce crisis. Sanders will join Gov. Phil Scott, Senate President Becca Balint and House Speaker Jill Krowinski on the Statehouse steps at 10 a.m. Monday. Even before COVID-19, it was estimated that Vermont should add around 9,000 nurses to the workforce in
Bernie Sanders: Pay your workers better. Warren Buffett: That’s not my job
By: Chris Isidore; CNN Warren Buffett, the ninth-richest person on the planet, says it’s not up to him to settle a strike by 450 steelworkers at a company he owns. Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, requesting that he intervene in a United Steelworkers union strike at the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia. They’ve
Sanders Pushes Workers to Organize as Advocates Celebrate “Year of the Worker”
By: Sharon Zhang; Truthout As labor advocates hail 2021 as the “year of the worker,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is encouraging workers to maintain the momentum by using their collective leverage to organize. On Wednesday, Sanders issued a warning to corporations and executives on Twitter. “For the ruling class, greed is a religion. They will cut back on workers’ wages,
Sanders calls for postmaster general to go
By: Vermont News & Media & The Associated Press; Bennington Banner On the same day the Vermont delegation to Congress panned the U.S. Postal Service for its failures in Vermont, the state’s longtime independent stalwart Sen. Bernie Sanders further called for the immediate resignation of the postmaster general. “Given the serious crisis and total failure of leadership at the United
