Andy Stern Quotes

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

The decline of the trade union is to some extent inevitable and irreversible.

If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

Duty of the Catholic Worker to Join Organized Labor

Power? Nine workers out of ten still unorganized, and union dues going to bribe middle class politicians. You call that power?

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

I think once you meet me, you realize I'm not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I've been on the picket line. I've been in the union halls. I'll drink a Miller Lite with you.

Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

I'm pro Union.

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha.

If you can peel off a few unions, you can make the Democratic Party irrelevant.