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 because of the global nature of the economy. Andy Stern Read Quote
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. Andy Stern Read Quote
Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members’ interests. Andy Stern Read Quote
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. Andy Stern Read Quote
America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn’t really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does – like the president sort of outlined when he first got here – we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. Andy Stern Read Quote
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. Andy Stern Read Quote
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. Andy Stern Read Quote
When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run. Andy Stern Read Quote
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? Andy Stern Read Quote
I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating. Andy Stern Read Quote