Bernie Sanders: US should back union movement ‘to save the middle class’

Bernie Sanders: ‘I think we’ve seen real, real progress in the last year.’ Photograph: Reuters

If the US is “going to save the middle class” then Democrats and Republicans must come together to back the newly resurgent labor movement, Bernie Sanders told the Guardian this week ahead of a Senate hearing on the benefits of unions.

Sanders is holding a Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee hearing on Tuesday with US labor leaders on the state of the US labor movement and efforts to rein in corporate greed in America.