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CNNWire
Friday, March 15, 2024 6:19PM
The elder legislator from Vermont's connection seeks to trim the modular workweek implicit a four-year period.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced a 32-hour workweek measure successful the U.S. with nary nonaccomplishment of wage for workers.
Sanders says his measure to found a four-day workweek is not a extremist thought and would pb to a amended prime of beingness for millions of Americans.
"One of the issues that we person got to speech astir is accent successful this country," Sanders said during a gathering of the Senate Committee connected Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. "The information that truthful galore radical are going to enactment exhausted, physically and mentally, and the information that we person not changed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This was successful 1940 -- we came up with a 40-hour enactment week -- 1940.
"Who is going to contradict that the system has not fundamentally and radically changed implicit that play of time?" Sanders said. "So, to suggest that we person to support what we enactment successful spot 84 years agone does not marque a batch of consciousness to me."
Sanders is joined connected the Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act successful the Senate by California Sen Laphonza Butler and successful the House of Representatives by California Rep. Mark Takano.
