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By: Rachel Roubein; The Washington Post Bernie Sanders threatens to block Biden health appointees who are too soft on drug industry Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is warning the White House: Health and Human Services nominees who aren’t prepared to “stand up and fight” the drug industry will likely lose his vote. “I will strongly oppose any future nominee to a major federal health

By: Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry’s retail shop in Burlington, Vermont, the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principles. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent who has been a vocal supporter of Starbucks labor organizers, congratulated the Ben &

By Nick Niedswiadek; Politico Former CEO Howard Schultz pushed back against allegations that the company illegally interfered in unionization efforts, but Bernie Sanders was having none of it. After months of steadily amping up pressure on Starbucks and its longtime leader, Howard Schultz, Sen. Bernie Sanders finally got his chance Wednesday to grill the coffee executive over the company’s hardball response to

By: Lauren Kaori Gurley; The Washington Post The founder denied the coffee company has broken any labor laws and said he “took offense” with being categorized as a “union buster” Former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz unequivocally denied that the coffee giant had broken the law in its fight against unionization during tense questioning from Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday.

By: Kyla Russell; CBS News In the face of senators’ criticism, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel did not agree to lower the commercial cost of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine in a hearing Wednesday on the vaccine’s price. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, opened the hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee by slamming “an unprecedented level of corporate greed”

By: Karl Evers-Hillstrom; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation on Thursday to prohibit bank executives from serving on the boards of regional Federal Reserve banks tasked with supervising their firm. Lawmakers have expressed outrage that former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Gregory Becker served on the board of directors at the San Francisco Federal Reserve, which failed to address the bank’s issues prior