'You at Starbucks all across this country are inspiring working people who are sick and tired of getting screwed over and who want decent wages, decent working conditions, and they want not to be treated as cogs in a machine,' says BernieSanders.
"You at Starbucks all across this country are inspiring working people who are sick and tired of getting screwed over and who want decent wages, decent working conditions, and they want not to be treated as cogs in a machine."U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday joined striking Starbucks workers in Boston to express solidarity with them and other employees of the coffee chain who have so far organized over 200 U.S. locations in less than a year.
"And the only way we're gonna be successful is when we build a mass grassroots movement and at the center of that movement is a strong trade union movement," he added."That's what you guys are doing. So thank you very much for what you're doing."The Starbucks workers, who voted to unionize in June, say they're fighting for a fairer workplace and the termination of their interim store manager, Tomi Chorlian.
Nelson, who joined the senator at the Starbucks location, led a chant:"Hey hey, ho ho, corporate greed has got to go." "We need people to engage. We need people to be involved," O'Brien also stressed."Being a union member, being a leader, being a worker, trying to organize, is not a spectator sport. You can't sit on the sidelines and hope and pray someone scores that touchdown for you. You've got to engage. Get in the fight."1,500 rally attendees:"Together, we can take on the billionaires and win.
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