Political Quotes

“For years the American Dream has been based on a basic deal: If you go to work every day and work as hard as you can, you will make a decent wage. If you get sick and have to go to the hospital, you'll have health benefits that mean that you won't lose everything you have because you got sick. At the end of the 40th hour of the week, your time belongs to you and your family, not to your boss, unless your boss is willing to pay you time and a half. And you don't have to work until the day you die because you can earn a decent pension and spend the golden moments and days of your life taking care of your grandchildren and your family. That's the deal. None of that existed for most Americans before collective bargaining existed. America has a middle class because America has collective bargaining. This bill is not about the number of days before an election or the size of a bargaining unit. This bill raises the issue of whether you truly believe in collective bargaining. And what this bill does is say to the minority of employers in America--and I think they are the minority by far--who would choose to subvert an election process, who would choose to intimidate and coerce their workers into voting against the union, this bill gives them a roadmap of exactly how to do that. It is a subversion of the American middle class because it's a subversion of collective bargaining. Our grandfathers and grandmothers stood on picket lines to fight for collective bargaining.…”