In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.