I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.
John SweeneyClearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
John SweeneyHard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.
John SweeneyThe Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
John SweeneyAs it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.
John Sweeney