Crowd cheers as Bernie Sanders joins Verizon workers’ picket line in Brooklyn

20160413_1347 Crowd cheers as Bernie Sanders joins Verizon workers picket line in Brooklyn (rawstory).jpg Crowd cheers as Bernie Sanders joins Verizon workers’ picket line in Brooklyn
By Reuters
(Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2016 1:47 pm ET) — 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.

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