Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

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

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 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.

We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.