20 Quotes by Anna Burger

We are pleased to see that Maryland legislators stepped up and made a statement about what kind of businesses they want in their state. Marylanders deserve businesses that provide for their employees, pay a decent wage and provide affordable health care, not those that expect taxpayers to foot the bill for their bottom-line corporate profits. They get that with Fair Share Health Care.

We believe when we work hard we should be able to get ahead.

Union power puts bread on our tables, roofs over our heads. It sends our children to college, and union power helps us retire with security,

Working people know that if a company as profitable as Boeing can skimp on retirement and health care, everyone's future is at risk.

There are millions of jobs in this country that can't be moved overseas. They include the people who heal the sick and comfort the elderly, who harvest and serve our food, and build and clean and protect our offices and homes. These men and women work hard and play by the rules but for too many the American Dream is something they see only on TV.

She said no woman is worth her salt unless she brings other women along. Right now when I think about what I need to do and what can inspire me, it's to make sure we make space for women, for people of color to have roles in our new federation, in our unions, in our meetings. We need to solve the problems they are confronting in their homes and their communities and their workplaces. We need to give them a voice.

We are going to reach out to those workers who are not yet organized and to the members of the public that understand and support the notion that this country can't exist without a vibrant middle class. This campaign will empower the millions of workers to help them effect real change to make work pay.

We are going to reach out to those workers who are not yet organized and to the American people who know this country can't exist without a vibrant middle class. The implications are clear: when employers make work pay, entire communities benefit.

It gave us an opportunity to change the labor movement, but unfortunately the labor movement didn't take it.