That's just a fact - that union members have higher wages and better benefits, and collective bargaining works for the workers.

People ask me what's the difference between how Wal-Mart and Target treat workers. I tell them Wal-Mart is a lot bigger. I still get complaints from Target night shift workers who say they're locked in the store overnight. When Wal-Mart did that, it made the front page of The New York Times.

The industry spent tremendous sums to defeat [legislative efforts in states] because they have so much at stake.

Union members, for example, are overwhelmingly covered by health insurance - and non-union members overwhelmingly are struggling to get health insurance. That's just one of the many benefits that is affected. It's just a fact of life.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.