“When you build a big movement from down below, regardless of who’s in the White House,
you can bring about change.”

Tony Mazzocchi
Former president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers.

Teach the children

Just as corporate heads teach and groom their children to take on the responsibility of business, we as union members need to teach our children about the union and how it can help them at work.

Gina Luper,
Editor, Local 897 Press
Buffalo, N.Y.

Don’t show dissension

In today’s world, we must be smart. We must be together. We must help each other out with problems in the plant. If we show dissension at any level, then management will take that as a sign of weakness and use it to their advantage.

Tim Kind
Local 1112
Warren, Ohio

Killing solidarity

I come from a very dirty business. … The enemy was the collective spirit. … I poisoned it, choked it, bludgeoned it if I had to, anything to be sure it would never blossom into a united workforce.

Martin Jay Levitt
Source: Confessions of a Union Buster

Corporate terrorists

President George W. Bush says Bin Laden has not been brought to the bar of justice because he is hiding in caves. The same cannot be said for the heads of Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, Global Crossing, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom and other corporate thieves. They are terrorists. They stole our pension money and they must make restitution.

Paul Boatin
Local 600 retiree
Dearborn, Mich.

Benefits of unions

In the absence of universal health coverage, most Americans count on employers to provide medical, dental and vision care. Leaving the provision of these benefits to employers means that nearly 50 percent of all workers have no medical care through their employer, and far fewer have dental and vision coverage. However, for union workers that is not the case. Seventy-five percent of all private sector union workers have medical benefits, 53 percent have dental care and 41 percent have vision care.