Bernie Sanders Releases Powerful New Video Fighting Exploitation

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/03/07/bernie-sanders-releases-powerful-new-video-fighting-exploitation/

Shining a spotlight on the abuse and exploitation of migrant workers, Sen. Bernie Sanders released an evocative video on Saturday depicting the lives of working families struggling to survive. By continuing to fight against abusive labor practices, Sanders remains the only presidential candidate consistently battling for fair wages and safe working conditions.

“I will always fight,” Udelia Chautla says in Spanish as the video opens. “As long as I can see my children happy and well, I will continue fighting to provide them with the best. My children are the motor that drives my life.”

Traveling from Mexico, Chautla arrived in Immokalee, Florida, and immediately went to work in the fields picking tomatoes for a large agricultural company. Struggling to survive on less than minimum wage while raising her three young children, Chautla could barely afford enough food to feed her family.

“There were cases of bosses abusing workers,” Chautla speaks about working in the fields of southern Florida. “They would not provide workers with water or restrooms. The bosses would get angry because some of the men wouldn’t want to keep working and start hitting them. At night, I would cry sometimes because what you earn isn’t enough. It affected my children because I didn’t have enough to buy food.”

[democrank]

1. That brought tears to my eyes.

Bernie Sanders doing what he has always done....stand up for workers.

[CdnExtraNational]

2. People built this land...

Thank you Bernie Sanders!