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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Without significant and meaningful campaign finance reform, we are just talking to the breeze.” — bob

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“We can play offense at a local level where tax payments are reinvested as economic development.” — toughlove

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Fight for a shift toward ‘stakeholder corporations’ like Germany has and away from ‘stockholder corporations.’” — Smeagel4T

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Crowdsourcing is the new, hip way to run things. How about the union leads the way in doing just that?” — dempseys123

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“We have to exploit social media better. Cell phones, Twitter, email and Facebook are all great mobilizing tools.” — gheires

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Keeping retirees organized and updated can add tremendously to union power, especially in the vital political arena.” — labordallas

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Labor-community partnerships are critically important vehicles for raising the floor on working conditions and minimum labor standards.” — vshabo

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“The almost surgical ability of union organizers to develop leaders and activists into a sort of self-replicating organizer is important.” — Ericalfaro

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Foster social justice and labor clubs in schools and universities and nurture connections between students, labor and community organizations.” — Vivian

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Our members are our microphones, and we need to give them an emotionally compelling narrative they can use when they interact with the general public.” — labored

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“The problem is that the local is a loose concept that can include organizations with multiple trades, odd geographies and, sometimes, competing interests.” — BrandonScovil

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“I believe the main difference is that Latinos face different circumstances on the job, we are culturally different, thus our perspective on things is different.” — crossana3

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“A focus on the growth of worker centers might go a long way in assisting marginalized workers secure better wages, safer working conditions and other protections.” — Jschmidlapp

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Let's revisit the Knights of Labor and create a 21st century version. Central labor councils once represented all working-class institutions, not just AFL-CIO unions.” — traven.l

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“It is very hard to see union support for labor force local issues such as poverty, local political representation, school board and financing support and so on.” — Reginald Bronner

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What you had to say about the future of labor and working families:

“Become the champion of the low-income majority, of the inhabitants of our inner cities, of our forgotten and alienated black youth and black men, of immigrant communities.” — marc.beallor

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