Bernie Sanders on Sunday voiced support for a 4-day workweek, a demand of striking auto workers.
"People in America are stressed out for a dozen different reasons," Sanders said.
"As a nation, we should begin a serious discussion — and UAW is doing that — about substantially lowering the workweek," Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, told CNN's Jake Tapper.
AdvertisementAdvertisement"People in America are stressed out for a dozen different reasons, and that's one of the reasons why life expectancy in our country is actually in decline," he said.
Sanders argued that cutting time at work would also be a just reward for gains in worker productivity, particularly with the advent of AI.
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