Andy Stern Quotes

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• Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.
• Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger-…
• Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
• American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
• The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've…
• Workers of the world unite. It's not just a slogan anymore.
• UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should…
• Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go…
• College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.
• I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
• Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are…
• I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.
• I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers…
• I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing…
• In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the…
• It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower…
• I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran…
• The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for…
• Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and…
• We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And…

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