There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
John SweeneyBecause of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.
John SweeneyIt's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.
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 SweeneyWe can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
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