Bernie Sanders' Senate campaign, office throw weight behind nurses during strike

Updated 8:50 a.m. ET July 14, 2018


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When last-ditch efforts by the University of Vermont Medical Center and unionized nurses to reach a contract failed this week, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told his Senate re-election campaign staff to take action.

"The Senator told us to do everything and anything we could to help the nurses and provide them with support," said Sanders' Senate campaign manager Shannon Jackson on Friday. Friday was the final day of the two-day strike.

Those working on Sanders' campaign sent out text messages to about 20,000 people living in the Burlington area to ask them to stand alongside the nurses. The names came from a list compiled of people who had signed up for the campaign's newsletter or asked to stay in touch with the campaign during previous Sanders campaigns, Jackson said.

Several hundred people have answered the call, Jackson said.

"We've been on the picket lines with them, both staff and volunteers and supporters of the campaign," Jackson said. He added, "We will continue to support them. We really believe what they are advocating for is necessary and is a minimal standard that should be received and accepted by UVMMC."




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