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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
~ Andy Stern
Able
American
American Workers
China
China And India
Companies
Compete
Countries
Fairly
Higher
India
Jobs
Like
Pay
Until
Wages
Workers
design
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Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.
~ Andy Stern
Add
Changed
Companies
Employers
Help
Like
Modern
Need
New
People
Provide
Recognize
Solution
Them
Value
Ways
Who
World
Would
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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.
~ Andy Stern
Another
Contracts
Employers
Establishing
Keep
Lifetime
Lower
Members
Negotiating
Out
Pay
Spent
Standards
Stop
Stronger
Union
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The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
~ Andy Stern
Allowing
Any
Bargain
Common
Divides
Each
Employer
Even
Industry
Organize
Own
Share
Strength
Structure
Then
Union
Workers
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America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it.
~ Andy Stern
Acting
America
Congress
Country
Deal
Does
Economic
First
Got
He
Here
How
Incapable
Like
Living
Our
Plan
President
Really
Revolution
Seem
Sort
Third
Through
Who
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And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.
~ Andy Stern
Cannot
Change
Country
Enough
Group
Having
I Think
Limited
Make
Making
Membership
Needs
Only
Our
People
Really
Same
Same Time
Social
Social Change
Strength
Think
Time
Understand
Until
We Cannot
Work
Workers
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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.
~ Andy Stern
Andy
Change
Created
Helping
I Tried
Ideas
Just
Model
Much
Obama
Out
Ran
Stern
Then
Too
Too Much
Tried
Victim
Win
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I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
~ Andy Stern
Correct
Economic
General
Particularly
Say
Wellbeing
White
Workers
Would
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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.
~ Andy Stern
Between
Correlation
How
Issue
Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Say
States
Structural
Structured
Success
United
United States
Workers
Would
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I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.
~ Andy Stern
Commission
Either
Fiscal
Heard
Hopefully
Immigration
Intend
Issues
Like
Never
Office
Run
Voice
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I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.
~ Andy Stern
Also
Any
Doing
Figure
Honor
I Can
Just
Keep
Life
My Life
Myself
Out
Particular
Problems
Running
Some
Take
Time
Want
Way
Where
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In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave.
~ Andy Stern
Been
Card
Last
Lead
Learn
Leave
Life
Miraculous
Most
My Life
President
Seen
Signed
Spectacular
Things
Time
Union
Years
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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.
~ Andy Stern
Allowed
Because
Both
Disappearing
Economy
Global
Jobs
Life
Live
Manufacturing
Nature
Other
People
Professions
Union
Unions
Unskilled
Were
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Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
~ Andy Stern
About
After
American
Been
Big
Big Corporations
Big Government
Businesses
Corporations
Go
Government
Like
Only
Republicans
Small
Small Businesses
Successful
Talk
Things
Three
Unions
Very
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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?
~ Andy Stern
About
Always
Bargaining
Change
Collective
Collective Bargaining
How
How Much
Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Much
Question
Role
Social
Social Change
Workers
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The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.
~ Andy Stern
About
Focus
I Think
Leadership
Lost
Me
Morals
More
Much
Purpose
Represent
Sort
Than
Think
Union
Who
You
Your
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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.
~ Andy Stern
America
Been
Best
Class
Cost
Creating
Dime
Ever
Government
Had
Has-Been
Job
Middle
Middle Class
Movement
Program
Union
Union Movement
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When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
~ Andy Stern
Agenda
Auto
Had
I Think
Job
Job Security
Learned
Left
Long
Long Run
Members
Only
Our
Public
Public Service
Quality
Run
Say
Security
Service
Started
Think
United
Workers
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