Andy Stern

Labor Leader

1950-11-22

Andy Stern is an American labor leader who served as president of the Service Employees International Union.

Quotes by Andy Stern

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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
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