Bernie Sanders: “Today in America you have three multi-billionaires who own more wealth than about half of American society. In [the U.K.] you have 100 people on top who own more wealth than the bottom 18 million people.”
who participated in demonstrations supporting the railway workers.
“Today in America you have three multi-billionaires who own more wealth than about half of American society,” Sanders explained. “In your country, you have 100 people on top who own more wealth than the bottom 18 million people. No-one can tell me from a moral perspective or an economic perspective that it makes any sense at all that so few have so much and so many have so little.” He continued, “In the U.K.
In both the U.K. and the U.S., support for unions, and for workers’ rights more generally, is on the rise after decades in which labor organizations have been on the defensive.
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