Sanders joins striking workers at UCLA in first 2020 California visit

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday joined striking workers at UCLA in his first appearance in California since declaring his 2020 presidential candidacy, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Sanders joined members of the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) to give a speech before the picket line, according to the Times.

“I’m here today not as a candidate for president but as somebody who has spent the last 40 years of his life walking the picket lines for unionized workers,” Sanders said, according to the Times. “What we are seeing all across this country is a war being waged against working people in America.”

Sanders’s visit to the Golden State comes a week after his own presidential campaign announced it will unionize, the first for a major-party candidate to do so. Sanders campaign workers will be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400.

“Bernie Sanders is the most pro-union candidate in the field, he’ll be the most pro-union president in the White House and we’re honored that his campaign will be the first to have a unionized workforce,” campaign manager Faiz Shakir said last Friday.

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