Andy Stern
Andy Stern
Andrew L. "Andy" Stern, is the former president of the Service Employees International Union. Stern is currently a senior fellow at Columbia University. Stern supports federal legislation to create universal health care, expansion of union ranks via the Employee Free Choice Act, more regulations on business, profit sharing for employees and higher taxes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth22 November 1950
CityWest Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
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.
We are not trying to divide the labor movement, we are trying to rebuild it,
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.
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it.
We know where (Bush) has stood and we would like to hear him say it again.
We have reached a decision, and we are hopeful that there are other unions who share our members' excitement for Dr. Dean's candidacy.
When we strengthen our cooperation and help workers in the same industry unite, everybody wins,