Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont dished up political comfort foods to members of an Iowa labor organization, expressing solidarity with the working class in its ongoing “class warfare” against big moneyed interests.
“For 45 years, there has been a war in this country waged by the corporate elite against the working class of America,” the 2020 Democrat, a socialist, told a raptured audience at the annual Iowa Federation of Labor conference on Wednesday. “If there’s going to be class warfare in this country, it’s about time the working class won that war — not just the corporate elite.”
Sanders’ remarks came the same day as he unveiled a plan to bolster union membership in the country, named the “Workplace Democracy Plan.”
In the proposal, Sanders pledges to bar corporations from receiving federal contracts that oppose unionization efforts and outsource labor to countries like Mexico or China.
