Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Union members are fiscal conservatives, a lot of them.
I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.
The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.
I'm pro-union and utterly hope that Scotland stays within the United Kingdom.
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.
The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination and ensured that Britain is one of the safest places in the world in which to go to work.
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.
