Amazon’s Labor Sins Should Keep it From Contracts, Sanders Says

Democrats are looking at ways to ensure that companies they say violate labor laws, such as Amazon.com Inc., don’t receive federal contracting dollars, resurrecting an Obama-era policy that was blocked during the Trump administration.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), long known for his support of workers and unions, told reporters after a Senate Budget Committee hearing Thursday that they’re “working on a number of directions to get this done.”

The question of how to bar labor and employment law violators from holding federal contracts dates back at least to the Obama administration’s Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order, which Congress ...