Andy Stern Quotes

• En la universidad hay tres cosas: deberes, diversión y sueño... pero sólo puedes elegir dos.

  Andy Stern

  Fun, Sleep, College

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• Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.

  Andy Stern

  Party, Political, Unions

  "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.

  Andy Stern

  Government, Stronger, Gains

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• Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.

  Andy Stern

  World, Workers, Slogans

  "Bill Moyers talks with Andy Stern". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2007.

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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

  Jobs, Government, Class

  "Exit Interview: SEIU Head Andy Stern Steps Down". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2010.

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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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  Issues, United States, Movement

  "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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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?

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  Roles, Movement, Social

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• Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you.

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  Justice, Community, Movement

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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

  Idaho, People, Add

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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

  Thinking, Focus, Purpose

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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

  Stronger, Unions, Pay

  "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.

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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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  White, Economic, Workers

  "Andy Stern: The exit interview". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

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  Tears, Veils, Causes

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• Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans dont like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

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  Successful, Government, Corporations

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• Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

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  Jobs, Struggle, Bridges

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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.

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  Correr, Trabajo, Pensar

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• Wal-Mart es un ejemplo escalofriante del daño que pueden causar las empresas no sindicadas y con salarios bajos, y su modelo de negocio va a establecer las normas para nuestros hijos a menos que hagamos algo ahora. Wal-Mart es la cloaca por la que se están yendo los buenos empleos.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Children, Example

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• La AFL-CIO es una estructura que divide la fuerza de los trabajadores al permitir que cada sindicato se organice en cualquier industria y luego negocie por su cuenta, incluso cuando los trabajadores comparten un empleador común.

  Andy Stern

  Cio, Unions, Afl

  "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.

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• We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.

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  Dream, Powerful, Community

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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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  Jobs, Class, People

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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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.

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  Running, Voice, Issues

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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

  Winning, Ideas, Too Much

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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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.

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  Country, Jobs, Competition

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• En 1972 firmé el carné del sindicato SEIU. Y durante los últimos 38 años, 14 como presidente, ha sido mi vida. He visto las cosas más milagrosas y espectaculares. Pero hay un tiempo para aprender, un tiempo para liderar y un tiempo para marcharse.

  Andy Stern

  Years, President, Cards

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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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

  Running, Honor, Want

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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