Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Amid a nationwide wave of labor organizing and victories, U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders on Tuesday held a hearing on the critical role unions play in raising up working families and fighting corporate greed. 'In America today, we have more income and wealth inequality than at any time since the Gilded Age,' Sanders noted in his prepared remarks.
'And what we are seeing is that these historic union victories are not only improving the lives of their members, they are beginning to improve the lives of nonunion workers all over the country,' he added. Speaking at the hearing, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain—who has garnered national attention recently with the 'Big Three' strikes—said that 'the working class needs this committee, and the entire Congress to step up.
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