Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a floor speech on Monday hailing the growing wave of union victories across the United States, including high-profile wins by Amazon and Starbucks workers, as an essential challenge to the country's vastly unequal political and economic status quo.
"While the billionaire class is becoming much, much richer, real weekly wages for American workers are $40 lower today than they were 49 years ago," Sanders (I-Vt.) said in an address in the Senate chamber just days after Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York voted to form the company's first-ever union in the U.S.
