While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.
My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.
I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.