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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

— Sam Brownback

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

— Chris Gibson

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

— John Sergeant Wise

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

— Bill Moseley

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.

— Jimmy Smits

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

— Jen Lancaster

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.

— Tony Danza

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

— Alan Sugar

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

— Hilda Solis