All that unions are about is not complicated. It is people coming together to fight for a contract which guarantees them certain basic rights.

With the support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act championed by Senator Sanders...

It's time for politicians to heed workers' demands.

It's ridiculous that the future for tens of thousands of workers in a company like Starbucks is up to the whims of just one person--Howard Schultz--who continues to oversee a company that breaks the law without sufficient consequence.

I would hope that Senator Cassidy and others would understand that is not only unacceptable behavior, but illegal behavior.

What common sense suggests... is that if a worker alone is in trouble, he or she does not have a lot of power to ask for better wages.

There is a class war going on, whether we want to recognize it or not.

We cannot let them buy the basic rights of working people.

In this country, workers have the right to form unions, and we are going to do everything we can to make sure that they can exercise that Constitutional right.

With the support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act championed by Senator Sanders...

This Committee, by the way, must do everything possible to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

CEO compensation right now, 400 times more than the average American worker.