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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
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.