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Bernie Sanders: “The idea of a 40 hours workweek... was first made legal in…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sanders campaigning for Kamala Harris, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 52:05

So instead of transferring wealth from the bottom to the top, workers all over this country are saying, hey, we're going to transfer wealth from the top down to the bottom. And by the way, The idea of a 40 hours workweek... was first made legal in the United States [in] 1944. World changed just a little bit in the last 80 years. You think maybe it's time to adjust the amount of hours that workers are forced to work. (52:05–52:16)

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Asserts that the 40-hour workweek was legalized in 1944.

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