It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

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

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

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

Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you.

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.

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.