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If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.