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?
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.
I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
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.
Social change comes through people.