Sanders praises shop workers, Ben & Jerry's on union effort

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry’s retail shop in the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principals. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent who has been a vocal supporter of Starbucks labor organizers, congratulated the Ben & Jerry’s workers at a press conference in his home city. “I’m very proud of the work that these workers have done in coming together to form a union and I’m very proud that we...