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    Let’s use technology to benefit workers," Sanders said.

    That’s Socialist thinking in a Capitalist country. He doesn’t own the means of production to change the schedules. In a Capitalist country you need the market power to negotiate for it.

    So call for unionizing because the opportunity is there.

    He doesn’t, so it is a distraction.

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            it is time for the party to embrace what he has long been arguing for and make backing unions a core part of their pitch to voters. They must decide, Sanders said, whether to “become a party which stands for the working class of this country” or to “remain a corporately controlled party beholden to [their] wealthy campaign contributors and to the corporate media as well

            Seems that you are right.