Occupation: Business Person Birth: November 22, 1950
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 out of Andy Stern ideas..
Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the stand….
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 sort of lost your morals and….
I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating..
College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two..
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..
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..
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with ….
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 most miraculous, spectacular th….
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..
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 worke….
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because un….
Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore..
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 new, modern….
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans dont like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go….
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-….
Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever ….
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 what I'm doing but in a ….
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. Sh….
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….