Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on Thursday, praised the 50,000 port workers who successfully secured a significant wage increase following their strike against the shipping industry’s “outrageous corporate greed.” What Happened: The Vermont senator attached a statement in solidarity with port workers in his post on X. He said, “Billionaires in the shipping industry must not be allowed to get even richer by replacing port workers with robots.” In his statement, he praised the workers for putting their “lives on the line” during the COVID-19 pandemic and keeping the economy going. He noted that th…
