The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and its not about who you represent, I think youve sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership. – Andy Stern
The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. – Andy Stern
And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work. – Andy Stern
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesnt cost the government a dime. – Andy Stern
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden