4/13/2016

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

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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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By Abigail Abrams, IBTimes.com

(Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 12:04 pm) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is having a good day. The Vermont senator on Wednesday picked up the endorsement of the New York transit workers’ union, received his first Senate endorsement and joined a picket line with communications union workers striking against Verizon.

Sanders visited the Transport Workers Union Local 100 union hall Wednesday morning to pick up his endorsement from the group. The senator thanked the union members for their support and said he planned to continue his winning streak in the New York primary on Tuesday.

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

Bernie Sanders Endorsements From NY Transit Workers Union Follows First Support From A US Senator

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