Unions have been the best ...

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- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.
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 Andy Stern

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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
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 Andy Stern
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
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 Andy Stern
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 and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you.
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 Andy Stern
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 and how the labor movement is structured.
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 Andy Stern
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 all workers?
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 Andy Stern