Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders is the new head of a key Senate panel on labor issues.
  • He is pushing a four-day workweek, worker-owned businesses, and taxing robots that replace workers.
  • It's part of his plan to improve worker satisfaction and empowerment after the "great resignation."

The new chairman of a key Senate committee on labor wants to make work less … laborious.