Andy Stern

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. ↗

— Andy Stern

#american #american workers #china #companies #compete

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 and that add value to companies. ↗

— Andy Stern

#changed #companies #employers #help #like

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

#change #created #helping #i #i tried

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating. ↗

— Andy Stern

#deteriorating #economic #general #i #particularly

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

#correlation #how #i #issue #labor

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

#either #fiscal #heard #hopefully #i

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

#any #bargain #common #divides #each

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

#always #bargaining #change #collective #collective bargaining

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 focus and the purpose of your leadership. ↗

— Andy Stern

#focus #i #i think #leadership #lost

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

#been #best #class #cost #creating