Robert Reich Sums Up Why Bernie Sanders’ Campaign is Surging

[kenn3d]

Originally aired on Democracy Now!
re-Posted as a blog: October 11, 2015 on United Steelworkers.org
http://www.usw.org/blog/2015/robert-reich-sums-up-why-bernie-sanders-campaign-is-surging

Bernie has a lot of rank and file support in the unions which is not reflected by union leadership endorsements.

[hifiguy]

1. Bernie has ever been a friend to tehe rank and file.

Bubba and Obama got the endorsements and then threw unions under the train immediately.

Working people are wising up.

[antigop]

2. Bernie Sanders Joins Picket Line in Iowa

http://time.com/4023760/bernie-sanders-picket-line-iowa/

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders joined about 100 Iowa-area workers on a picket line outside on Friday night, putting action behind the pro-working class talking points he delivers on the campaign trail.

The Democratic presidential candidate joined workers from a Penford Products corn processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa who were picketing as their union representatives negotiated a contract with management, according to the Des Moines Register.

Sanders, an Independent in the Senate and a self-described Democratic socialist, addressed the crowd of laborers after walking in the “informational picket”, condemning “corporate greed” and the “war against working families,” the Washington Post reports.

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3. How many picket lines has Hillary joined? nt

[rhett o rick]

4. The leadership has to play politics. The rank and file can vote how they like. nm

[LWolf]

5. Yep. nt

[Enthusiast]

6. Very good!

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Bernie takes his "comfortable shoes" with him wherever he goes.

Picket lines don't scare him. The rank and file know BERNIE, and ONLY BERNIE, will always protect their Unions.