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Donkees

(31,413 posts)
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 05:57 AM Jun 2018

Bernie Sanders Speaks with the Weekly on Disneyland and the Fight for Fair Wages

JUNE 4, 2018


Excerpt:

Now I know you had some choice words for Bob Iger. The Disneyland Resort released a statement insinuating that your criticisms of the corporation and visit to Anaheim were done to keep you in the headlines rather than out of a general concerns for its workers. What’s your response?

Well, I’ll tell you what, I think that’s, obviously, nonsense. If they want to make sure that I don’t come back to Anaheim again, they can simply do the right thing and that is pay their workers a living wage and provide decent health care benefits to their employees so they won’t see me back here. But instead of attacking me, they should listen. I know that Disney is very much into media. I would hope very much that somebody gives them a tape of the workers who spoke. They don’t have to worry about Bernie Sanders. They ought to worry about those five or six workers who talked about being homeless, talked about working seven days a week, talked about not having enough time off to sleep, [and] talked about being hungry. Those are the people they should be paying attention to.



https://www.ocweekly.com/bernie-sanders-speaks-with-the-weekly-on-disneyland-and-the-fight-for-fair-wages/

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Bernie Sanders Speaks with the Weekly on Disneyland and the Fight for Fair Wages (Original Post) Donkees Jun 2018 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author NCTraveler Jun 2018 #1
Empty and long political career. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #2

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NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
2. Empty and long political career.
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 06:07 AM
Jun 2018

Biggest accomplishment, blocking a pathway to citizenship for over ten million people in order to “protect” a small number of predominately white jobs. Even that failed as Republicans got what they wanted in the following years when it comes to visas. That is how easily this guy can justify human rights abuses and screw over people who don’t look like him. Get that people.Understand it. It is one hundred percent accurate.

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