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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.