it is mind boggling that more people........like all workers do not support Bernie. i cant understand voting against human interest. americans are suffering due to uneducated voters or one issue voters.
Would somebody think of the poor billionaires?? 😢 I especially like the part where he asked what would happen to the oil industry if we switched to electric vehicles. Republicans are not working for the people, right to work states, wtf is wrong with people who vote for republicans?? Brain dead
Not quite! He claims to be a Social Democrat but is unaware of what that means. Labor unions still subjugates workers. Hardly different than the feudalism of years gone by!
@@sandybayes Not if your rank and file members are strong and organized...that's how John Deere workers got what they wanted.They didn't just take what the union leadership negotiated with the John Deere heads.
@@sandybayes are you currently or have you ever been in a union? Well I’m a union Ironworker out of tampa local 397 and ever since I made the switch 8 years ago my work/personal life have gotten substantially better! my point is if you haven’t walked in our shoes you have no room to speak
@@sandybayes don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Nothing is perfect but anyone who tells you that your employer will not exploit you whenever they can is looking to exploit you. Unless we get each other’s backs we will all fall. A union is a step in the direction of helping each other and ourselves
Senator Sanders thank you for speaking the truth. Slave labor ended many years ago. It's refreshing to hear a politician that is diligently working and not just screaming out for clicks. Lindsey Graham is in denial.
@@shelleygebhardt3143 You are correct. Graham's campaigns rely on corporate donations and he owns stock in many, if not all of them. That is a conflict of interest and he should recuse himself from government positions that make policies that benefit his corporate masters.
Amazon is actually quadruple-dipping into US taxpayer dollars, if you think about it. 1. Pays no federal income tax, even collecting tax refunds. 2. Government contracts and subsidies at all levels of government. 3. Amazon accepts SNAP benefits as a form of payment, whether online or in-store. 4. Pays workers so little that many of them qualify for safety net programs like food stamps, Section 8, Medicaid, subsidized child care, etc.
If Amazon were to choose between paying 30 dollars per hour to warehouse workers or spending billons of dollars for R&D to develop picking robots, Amazon would choose to invest in picking robots. I think unionization of Amazon workers is accelerating the inevitable, which is gradual phasing out boring, manual work at warehouses. The government should support Amazon with subsidies to incentivize it to employ warehouse workers, instead we are hearing the opposite.
@@IllinoisblueLineBerserkerwatch Why do u think that? Robotics companies would not have employees to b in a union if they chose not to build if robot would take away human job Robotics/ automation will replace human labor across all markets. That is why it is extremely important to update the US education system (vs the opposite banning books & alter facts in subjects like history & science) so the labor force will b prepared for the future in areas like technology, environmental, energy, & food production. A good example would b in housing; homes that can withstand the changing environment: extreme summers & winters, greater ability to withstand tornados, quakes & hurricanes, using renewable materials. All new homes should create 100% of their energy utilizing solar, wind & water using power bank (off grid). All homes need to b collecting rain water (61% of US has been in drought for minimum 40 weeks) & grey water needs to b directed back into the home, gardens, & ground. I also believe that all toilets should b composting/ incinerator. Every home should have the ability to suppliment food. Even people living in apartments can utilize lights creating a living wall or atrium style drawers.... I've always wanted an Earthships. Architect Michael Renyolds started this in the 1970s & has built these homes around the world. Also think the gov needs to start paying Universal Basic Income funded by a minimum- maximum range corporate tax- The greater a corporations use of robotics/ technology vs human labor the higher the tax
I was a union worker for 30 years and I always had great wages and benefits and great heath insurance and till this day I get a good pension too !!!!!!fact fact fact !!!!!
My Dad had 30 years with the UAW. My mom just turned 86 and she STILL has surviving spouse benefits from General Motors. That’s the kind of security unions provide.
The unions at one time supported the middle class.The money these jobs supported contribute to tax revenues and support pension and social security but the greed of Wall Street that benefit the few to major proportion contribute to the national demise of the majority of the population. The politicians except major contributions from lobbyists to fill there pockets not to support the taxpayers that placed them in office. Follow the money and this political theater is for the uneducated or gullible but do not expect a positive outcome for the taxpayers or workers.
Companies have always used employees “benefits “, when it benefits them. They’ll offer it to recruit workers when needed and easily take them away and slowly putting all the cost on the employee over time.
Gal was saying her walmart employer only scheduled her for 39 hrs. a week. Not eligible for health coverage unless work at least 40 hrs. a week. Employers are doing some really cheapskate managerial tricks.
Lindsey Graham is absolutely Shameless! Imagine if Republicans worked as hard for their constituents as they do for corporations... there is something very wrong with our world when the people in the richest country in the world can't even live comfortably.
I've been a disabled veteran for 40 years, with the past 30 years being homeless. Every cop, lawyer, judge, & politician, in America, belongs in prison, except for Bernie!
You would think when an individual has obtained so much wealth which could not all be spent in 1000 lifetimes they would actually enjoy seeing such hard working employees benefit also instead of such personal gluttony
All of my kids worked at the local Amazon on and off as temporary/seasonal - one was converted but she was going to go back to KU. Amazon closed the center and relocated it south about 78 miles to Tulsa, OK. It was one of the largest employers in town if not the largest. They kept it a secret until I called the Chamber of Commerce and tried to warn them they were about to lose their largest employer in this small town. My oldest daughter walked a toenail off one time when she worked. She was let go once because she was pregnant, her numbers were unbelievably good. One of her work "chums" "innocently" complained to the temp service manager about her and mentioned she was pregnant and was she going to be let go. It was Christmas and they were letting people go and deciding who would be offered conversion to Amazon employee. She never went back to Amazon and then they were *poof* gone ... real fast. I'd like to see Lindsey Graham's pampered butt last 15 minutes at Amazon. Right to work is code for Right to Fire (for no reason). And every supervisor knows that.
I can understand a company forcing their employees to hear its arguements, sure. But to defend a corporation enforcing what people think, placing controls to deplete free speech. Graham is deplorable. He cares more for how the building feels, than those who are working inside.
It is against the law for a company to take an anti-union stance whithin their company or publicly because of the leverage companies have over workers. If workers feel that their employers are antagonistic towards worker's organizations they'd be far less likely to even discuss unionizing. That essentially constitutes coercion.
Organized Labor is Democratic. Democracy is about people, all the people. No group of people should be treated like Colonial Servants to a Ruling Class. My own ancestors fought the American Revolution and I will not forget to keep on stating that fact. My ancestors fight against Tyrants and Slave Masters in the Civil War. Keep standing strong, together, We the People will organize for More Perfect Union.
Amazon needs an awakening of men and women that have had enough of Jeffrey Bezos. It is insulting that he needs to break down the spirit of the workers.
How nice for Rachel Greszler to make a fat check from the Heritage Foundation for her six kids helping make sure people who do manual labor can't afford to raise one.
She can also F all the way off for pretending like she's taking some kind of quasi-feminist position, when the policies she fights for would hurt so many women, single mother heads of households and just families in general. I resent being used to gaslight other women into fighting against their own interests. Edit: relevant quote at 35:35
And the workers who lost their jobs are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Lindsay Graham wants to pretend like this committee is not important. Maybe his head is so far up Donald Trump’s ass that he can’t hear what’s going on in his state.
Umm.... Did Lindsey Graham just define democracy and then call it "very dangerous"? Lindsey Graham (@ 11:36): "This is a political process here. This is an effort to get an outcome you want using the US Senate as your vehicle. This is very dangerous."
I am a Liberal Conservative and 4-5 years ago I bought into the propaganda that this man was some radical Marxist… 4-5 years and a degree later I’m realizing nearly every thought/belief I’ve had about our government and everything I resented about it. All the things I practically yelled at my tv over because these politicians never mention these things ; probably because they were things in conflict with the people funding there campaigns. … I’m only now realizing that Bernie Sanders might be the only guy left in the U.S. Government who is not corrupted by the dirty game of politics and is truly interested in helping the common American. It’s sad that because the guy has refused to corrupt his morals and seriously claim any partisanship or let lobbyists sway his opinions that he’ll probably never win a presidential election. I’m so glad there’s a guy sitting up in D.C. telling it as it is , he calls out shit that is blatantly unreasonable and one sided towards these corporations and top 1 percent and he doesn’t beat around the bush either. Some of the things this man says there is simply no debate for wether your right or left. The only debate that seems to exist to some of the things he says are not even respectable counterpoints , if anything they are shining examples of rabid partisanship and being a mouthpiece for corporate lobbyists. I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat if you are a member of the working/middle class idk how you could hate on Bernie Sanders.
What about SSI/SSDI recieptiants still waiting in deep poverty? Rent and phone alone takes 80% of my SSDI check, with just enough for 1 meal a day, usully a can of tuna or spaghetti what about this single wheelchaoir bound neuromusclur patient? When will we matter? Promises, Promises!!
I have been waiting 42 yrs. Who is the ding a ling saying health care is cheaper here than in other countries. He should watch "Sicko" by Michael Moore.
dont vote republican or corporate dem. If Bernie actually was our president, like he was supposed to be (the DNC screwed him out of the nom, not once, but twice) I can guarantee we would all be in better shape, as he fights _constantly_ for medical healthcare & our owed benefits. Bernie isn't corrupt or can not be bought, so Washington will never allow him to be our President - this is wrong. Instead, they spin him, his policies & his beliefs to the media, making older people afraid of him for some reason. He is one of the only politicians in history to really care for "we the people," and tell the truth.
@@IllinoisblueLineBerserkerwatch It takes years to get approved for section 8 If you can find any good landlords who will accept it. Most are scumlords and take advantage of people
Sen Kaine, did you consider the number of Amazon employees you mentioned (one million) MAY be exaggerated due to an item in Amazon’s business model? ‘Hire them, pay as little as possible, work them as hard as possible, they will quit and we quickly replace them…’
Sadly, he's practically the only politician that keeps addressing common sense issues with no results. GOP and most Dems are mere puppets protecting wealthy elites, lobbyist and oligarchs in every business sector ,and never follow through with promises they make to their voter base
I understand why bernie took the chair positions to endorse biden. But I fear he overestimates the mental bandwidth most people allot for politics. Yet I still have hope his efforts can make a difference.
There’s a reason South Carolina is the ninth poorest state, roughly 3% of people who work for a living belong to a union, and SC is a right to work for less state.
SC also has tons of Amazon workers of all political stripes. I hope the Republican ones watch Graham's comments so they can see how hard he sides with the billionaire prick who's exploiting them and getting immensely wealthy with their grueling labor.
With a government that no longer represents it's citizens, the ONLY thing we can do as a nation to tip the scales back towards balance, is a very aggressive union growth. This is the only thing that can pull money back into the middle class.
@@tombondcrispy6585 The wealthy who have captured our government, including SCOTUS will never allow the nation to force them to contribute more. If it were possible we'd have done it already. Their hand has to be forced, and having workers organize, to require better wages/fewer hours has the best probable success in prying resources from the top to distribute to society.
Thank you Senator Sanders for always speaking out for the American workers and people. If only the others would fight back against corporate corruption. Maybe because of their stock. Maybe because of kickbacks. TAX THEM ALL Give all the working people a voice.
That's not true. Workers production has continously increased with every year. Corporations are getting richer by the day. NO SOCIALISM for corporations. TAX the corporations.
Thanks for letting us know you're anti-union, Lindsey. He's also repeating the same BS and lies that most politicians do when it actually comes to doing something good for once for actual people. I wish his state would do us all a favor and vote him out. Oh, I LOVE what Smalls did addressing Graham. I wish MORE people would stand up to politicians like that! That was so lovely to see!
Amazon took me away from daytime permanent part time job at Walmart. In interview said I was Amazonian but on day one found out I was seasonal. I was struggling recent college grad so I accept their games. After seasonal I ended back at Walmart now on nights. Finally after two years got real job in a office.
Most of the Senators nailed it. Stop looking at it as "targeting Amazon" that is not what is being established here. It is a reminder to all companies, proper business practices and keeping workers, worplaces and consumers priority first, gains you record profits. Costs to the consumer is less about the actual wage of a worker than the amount of hours given to production or the costs of supplies to manufacture. A service dept sometimes charges 100/hr to the consumer for technician to put tires on a car. The tires are a separate "cost". The mechanic may only make 15-20 dollars of that $100, that is really "gouging" unless the additional 80-85 dollars can be justified. Wholesale to retail is only double unless tremendous amounts of waste and loss is a factor. Thats for the company to figure out how to control THAT, not a persons wage. Lindsay Graham is actually expressing "socialism" oligarchy. "Right wing"= Socialism. Too many Republicans try to deflect. Thats your burden to bear Republicans. Whether unions are formed in workplaces or not, the fact remains every employer/company should expense revenues towards workforce and workplace environment, safety and towards education for promotion FIRST. Make it a priority. THEN they can say they have EARNED their revenues. "Right to work" states should make sure that livable wages and affordable benefits are being encouraged and no place in a right to work state is an oppressor to the people. For any "right to work" state to NOT mandate a livable wage as minimum wage is a disgusting House and Senate.
Great comment! You are really really close to getting it, you are only a couple steps away, comrade, to mental freedom . This country is like a mutant anarchy-corporate-facism-plantation....thing. There's a lot of big words for what it is, but anyone with eyes can see its FUBAR right? The trick-le down wage scam from Reaganonics is BS: giving the top corporations welfare, trusting capitalist to "police themselves", "hoping" they know what to do with trillions of tax payer dollars, and it'll just trickle down to every one else. This horse to sparrow: horse 💩 economics, or zombie economics.
There is a name for what you are feeling and why you are feeling it and it is "capitalist alienation". And its caused by wage gouging. Which I could understand if our GDP was in the dirt, but it is not! It is at record highs! CEOs have had a 1600% raise in the last 30 years. Workers have had 2.5 trillion a year in wage value stolen from us. If wage growth followed But when too much corporate welfare is pumped into profitable corporations and the "inflation" happens and (stock buy-backs). The Fed jacks up the interest rates to drive down job creation, drive up unemployment and....checks notes....drive down freaking wages?! How is this not front page news right now?! These corporate neo-lib hacks are insane!
@@maxxidle Actually I have already "gotten it" I've lived through it, and overcome it. You are not speaking with a 20 year old or even a "family owned and operated, never got off the porch" like Trump. You cannot expect anyone in those situations to ever understand the REAL world and how it works. Some people don't get by with a little help from "fake friends who fake family" in fact... they would prefer not to.
I really love the humanity in Senator Sanders, I wish the world had more of such men.On the other hand people of Lindsey is guarding his own interests and those of his calibre.
bernie, i revere you for your for your dogged work against corporate criminality, including the US corporation . you have made a deep imprint on the American story
THIS IS FIRE CHRIS SMALLS AND BERNIE ARE SUCH INSPIRATIONS!!! love from arkansas also lindsey graham is so sleezey and dishonest really only like 1% less smarmy than ted cruz
Yes. The rot of greed has infected our world and is destroying it. Slime ball Graham is a puppet of its greedy, insatiably money hungry, wealth hoarding monster corporate masters who exploit, manipulate and enslave employees. Enough of their shiz. Abolish all taxpayer subsidies for these monster corporations.
Taxpayer dollars should never go to a business or corporate entity, that in itself should be anathema to the free-market capitalism they want so badly. Maybe if they *just worked harder* or *spent less on coffee* they wouldn’t need assistance 👀. Instead Americans should be more on board with a national healthcare system and housing reform.
Neoliberal propaganda takes many forms. One of the main myths and pieces of propaganda is the belief that your taxes fund the Federal government. There is no such thing as taxpayer dollars. Dollars paid to the Federal government are essentially destroyed.
You don’t understand they already shot themselves in the foot years ago. The money is what keeping a lot of these zombies companies afloat. We going to crush soon one way or another and this crush is going to be worst than the Great Depression. Few people pay attention to the huge CEO retirement a few years back and quitting they see it coming. In fact, a lot of folk see it coming. It looks like it pretty much world wide with a few countries that already collapsed already. Only thing keeping the USA afloat is the world standard and their losing that power day by day. They let it go on too long and when I say this I mean they been doing this to themselves for decades now letting companies run the country, shipping, and investing in other countries and sending all the jobs there that are now becoming our biggest enemies, paying companies welfare to keep companies afloat instead of letting them fail like they should, etc. Now we close to reaping with we sow for years, they trying to blame it on everything now but with they did. Now everybody racing to not be the one holding the bag, hot potato, or the one without a chair when the music stops.
i saw a recent quote in a frontline or some pbs show that the warehouses in riverside, ca have a turnover of 150 people per week. 150% turnover over all would crap out pretty quick. just trying to keep things believable. But, hey, i'm with Bernie on this project.
I'm also hoping it pisses off Jeff Bezos to be called "the SECOND richest man in the world". As greedy and sociopathic as he is, it's bound to burn his biscuits that he lost his top spot.
Lindsey Graham goes personal and attacks Bernie, whereas Bernie stuck to the facts of the issue. He might have glared meaningfully at Ljndsey now and then while talking but he didn’t insult him with innuendo and personal mischaracterization. For Lindsey to say this isn’t important and to insult Bernie and workers all at the same time is an outrage. We can see him itching to have the power back in his hands. Deny him that: Vote for Democrats!
@@bethleslie3994 Agreed, Graham came off like a petty, petulant child, but when you go to war with someone, you want them to be emotional so they'll make more mistakes. Bernie kept his cool with his trademarked laser-focus on policy and substance. A big part of why he continues to be the #1 most popular senator for several years running. With all due respect though, I don't believe in "vote blue, no matter who". I'm a lefty non-affiliated voter, and the first thing I base my votes on is the source of a candidate's funding. Taking large corporate donations of any kind is immediately disqualifying. Both of my US senators and my US Rep. are all Democrats. My Rep. doesn't just take all kinds of corporate money, but has been in Congress for decades and has more than $10 million PERSONALLY invested in our local natural gas utility while he wears a stupid bicycle lapel pin and masquerades as some kind of progressive environmentalist. My blue senators are both fully beholden to Wall Street, the for-profit health care industry, war profiteers and fossil fuel companies. I can't in good conscience enable this corruption anymore, and I would argue that it's this corruption which caused the dire straits we're in currently. I had to get off the merry-go-round.
@@bethleslie3994 Also, my senior senator has been in the Senate for 26 years, and before that he was our Rep. for 16 years. That's 42 total years in Congress. My Rep. has been in the House also for 26 years, since he literally took the senior senator's House seat. My junior senator has "only" been in the Senate for 13 years. He's decent on a couple of issues but barely gives more than lip service to the issues I care most about. To give him some credit, he was the only sitting US senator to endorse Bernie in the 2016 campaign. I was happy to see that, but that goodwill only takes him so far with me if he chooses to take legal corporate bribes. Every single of them have become quite wealthy during their long stints in Congress, and none of them are bestselling authors, if you know what I mean, lol.
Pass the pro act. If it were up to me, I would force ALL corporations to be unionized, and add more protections to workers. Stop voting corporate backed democrats, and corporate backed Republicans, check where their money is coming from. Stop voting stagnant politicians for progressives. Primary Biden. Nina Turner 2024 👏 💙
We can follow the German model. Any business, seriously 100% of businesses if they want to be in Germany, must allow the workers to be Unionized first. This was 8 years ago, but I was watching a documentary on business practices and Walmart came up. They first talked to the Germans' because it was a new company for them and from America no doubt. Their starting rate of pay, and this is regardless of cashier, stocking or mopping was the equivalent of our 34 dollars an hour. They loved working at Walmart because of the great pay, benefits and time off, plus new options that are simply not offered to American's such as maternal leave AND pay. She asked, why do just about every American I hear when talking about Walmart, hate the place and want to find something different and higher paying. When she heard the producer say, minimum wage usually, but sometimes a dollar or two more. She still looked like she needed some more understanding so he just came out with it, roughly 8 to 9 dollars and hour, rarely given any benefits and time off. The woman looked like she was looking into a NAZI Concentration camp for the first time. How can American's afford to buy their houses, cars and clothes, never mind their family? Both her and her husband work at Walmart, bought a nice house that they raise their two kids in and never worry about time off as German companies are required by law to offer a month of paid leave upon your first day of work. This clip of the Pro Act was great and needed, and Lindsey Graham acted like a selfish bitch that was fingering out one company and not his butt hole. The first guy that responded and I totally respect for wearing what he did for the hearing was legit, and no Lindsey the same lousy treatment from your company is not just a single man's opinion. I would have loved it if Lindsey would asked the Union leader, if he enjoyed a good bum fingering as Lindsey says he does between meetings.
The people aren't agreeing to have Amazon in their city. The chamber of commerce is getting paid by Amazon. Stop trying to make your self look ignorant and innocent.
How about sanctioning oligarchs like Bezsos? Freeze their personal assets or force them to sell their shares in their company. Freeze the assets of the companies, only allowing out going money to go to employees only. Stop giving them corporate welfare, stop all government contracts, bailouts etc until they do what they are supposed to do by law!!!
@@warriorwaitress7690I can't agree with you more. Having said that, for every problem there's a solution. A man's worst enemy is considering himself as the center of the universe and mobilize all his capabilities to materialize the unnatural hypothesis driven by greed and justified by brutality. When you tell people there's not sufficient supplies of toilet papers they fight each other over toilet papers, when you tell a Billionaire that his potential rivals might take over he doesn't even think about the workers who are a financial burden to him no matter how much they serve his pocket. That's what greed does to people. The only solution for this mess is actually simple; tell the toilet paper fighters and the Billionaires who are like mass-toilet paper fighters to stop, and about think about their behavior. Meanwhile as a legislator one should minimize the chance of greed driven brutality and chaos on any level.
I love Grandpa, and always will. Real talk, no bs. I wished you would have been president. Thankfully you are still here to bring the truth. It shouldn't be so few doing this, but here we are. And look at where we are.
Bernie didn't say companies had to stay natural about their labor force, he said that they couldn't break labor laws. Lindsey just wanted to rant about Bernie and what he's trying to do
As usual. Bernie and his principles are a major threat to the Republican norm. Republicans are paid for by corporations and their rich friends in lobbying and a more powerful and representative working class that doesn’t allow those companies exploitation of them is dangerous to all the republicans pocket books.
SSI ONE CHECK .PAY RENT PAY MY PHONE . HAIR CUT EXTRA FOOD CUZ IS NOT ENOUGH. I CANT EVEN BUY MY NEEDS. OMG! ARE YOU ALL WENT MAD? GOD HELP US ALL..A CRUEL WORLD. NYC..ONE
There is a very simple solution to this problem. Nationwide boycott would bring Amazon to it's knees. If Americans care and value the lives of other Americans than they would stop doing business with a company that is hurting Americans through illegal actions.
The promise of capitalism is the potential of unrestricted profits. In exchange for that, no company should ever be able to receive taxpayer bailouts. Greed should have a price.
I agree with Sir Bernie. Hear hear. Lindsey make an example of Boeing, seriously?! What makes you think Boeing is successful company? The engineer/workers work on that shit. Patent by engineer/workers. Assembly by workers. Yet, the ceo corporations made millions, while workers made what? 12dollar per hour.
Its like Brazil during slavery. They had a constant flow of “ importing” slaves then worked then literally to death with minimal or no interaction with women. Today we reflect on this through the art of Capoeira that was born during that time.
Lindsey Graham should just spend a month working at Amazon without telling anyone who he is, what he’s there for, or what his intentions are. Then we can see if he sings the same song.
More volume! 😇 happy cinco de mayo senor Bernie. I would be your VP. Had a dream about it and I'm going to think about it. Mucho Feliz y Paz y gracias de mi corazon
The United States needs you to run independent this time Bernie. Seriously we NEED a game changer. We need to stop the game playing and terrorism of the other two parties. Sickening to see daily their failure to represent the US citizens. No more lobbyist filling the pockets of the politicians. We're done with the abuse from the government itself over the years. NOW IS THE TIME FOR REAL CHANGE
