Sanders to Hold Hearing on Whether Taxpayer Dollars Should 'Go to Companies That Violate Labor Laws'

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Senate Budget Committee Chairman SenSanders has invited mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos to testify because Amazon has become 'the poster child for illegal anti-union behavior while raking in billions in federal contracts.'

Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Monday that the Senate Budget Committee is planning to hold a hearing later this week to discuss ending federal contracts to corporations engaged in illegal anti-union practices.—titled"Should Taxpayer Dollars Go to Companies that Violate Labor Laws?"—is scheduled for Thursday, May 5.

"However, nearly 30% of the top 200 violators of workplace safety and wage theft are government contractors," according to afrom the progressive lawmaker's office."Between 2014 and 2019, federal contractors were required to pay nearly $225 million in back wages to workers for Service Contract Act violations."

"Since 2004," said Sanders' office,"Amazon has received thousands of federal contracts worth billions of dollars, and is currently in line to receive a $10 billion cloud contract from the National Security Agency. Blue Origin may also soon receive a contract from NASA worth up to $10 billion." on anti-union consultants in a bid to"illegally prevent its warehouses from unionizing," says the statement.

 

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SenSanders Bernie, don't go to UKRAINE. If you want to run in 2024 Stay away from that rabbit hole. Stay away from Democrat tribalism. Pelosi, stepped into S**t. You don't need to get involved in a losing battle.

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