Unions

Education reformer Michelle Rhee, author of “Radical,” talks with “Say Anything!” host Joy Behar about why she’s such a lightning rod among the education establishment.

"I can’t remember the last time the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce got together on anything." —Robert Reich

"Ever since 1981, when Ronald Reagan declared war on union workers, the Republican war against unions has been relentless." —Thom Hartmann

"Some of our conservative brothers and sisters might think this is mean, my reciting several actual things Reagan actually, really did." —John Fugelsang

"There should not be anything like a second-class American worker in this country." —Eliseo Medina

"The underlying problem in the economy isn't uncertainty and it isn't taxes. It's demand." —Dan Gross

"Federal law clearly prohibits unions from requiring membership." —Eliot Spitzer

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"According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages for full-time, full-year union and nonunion workers in right-to-work states are about $1,500 less annually than a similar worker in a non–right-to-work state." —Eliot Spitzer

Our old friends the Koch brothers, who are together worth $62 billion, have enlisted yet another Republican governor as their ally in the fight to destroy unions and the middle class.

"If people can freeload and not pay their fair share, there will be less of a resource for the union to represent people." —Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.