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| Crowd Cheers As Presidential Candidate Sanders Drops In On Picket Line
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 13-April-2016
13:26:36 PM |
| Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders paid an impromptu visit to a Verizon workers' picket line in Brooklyn on Wednesday after being endorsed by New York City transit workers as he tried to wrest a bit of union support from rival Hillary Clinton.
The Brooklyn-born Sanders addressed an enthusiastic crowd of striking workers from Verizon Communications Inc as "brothers and sisters" and thanked them for their courage in standing up to what he characterized as corporate greed.
It was a scene tailor-made for the US senator from Vermont, who has focused on income inequality in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders is trying to catch up with Clinton, the front-runner, in Tuesday's primary in New York, a state both candidates have called home.
Workers cheered as Sanders criticized the mammoth communications company for wanting to take away health benefits, outsource jobs and avoid federal income taxes, calling it "just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans."
"Today you are standing up not just for justice for Verizon workers, you're standing up for millions of Americans ... and you're telling corporate America that they cannot have it all," Sanders said.
Nearly 40,000 Verizon employees walked off the job on Wednesday in one of the largest US strikes in recent years after contract talks hit an impasse
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