workers have a right to join a union.

It is a bedrock of our democracy that the law applies to everyone, including the most powerful.

These workers know, as I do, that union workers earn 20 percent more on average than nonunion workers.

What we are now seeing is a major increase in trade union organizing.

Today in our Country, over 60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck and millions are working for starvation wages.

At a time when 71 percent of the American people now approve of unions, the highest level since 1965.

The average American worker is making $50 a week less than he or she made 50 years ago after adjusting for inflation.

At a time when 71 percent of the American people now approve of unions, the highest level since 1965.

The average American worker is making $50 a week less than he or she made 50 years ago after adjusting for inflation.

These workers know, as I do, that union workers earn 20 percent more on average than nonunion workers.

Today in our Country, over 60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck and millions are working for starvation wages.

The fundamental issue we are confronting today is whether we have a system of justice that applies to all or whether billionaires and large corporations can break the law with impunity.

What we are now seeing is a major increase in trade union organizing.

As a result of that economic reality, what we are now seeing is a major increase in trade union organizing.

The fundamental issue we are confronting today is whether we have a system of justice that applies to all or whether billionaires and large corporations can break the law with impunity.

Starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern history of our Country.

Unless we change the nature of the way our economy works, it is all too likely that our younger generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents.

an administrative law judge found Starbucks guilty of, 'egregious and widespread misconduct.'