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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.