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Unions Add Muscle to Low-Wage Worker Campaigns

'I'm encouraged that the younger generation is looking at trying to improve a lot of things that we’ve let fall to the wayside. This Labor Day may be the most important in the last five or 10 years because more people are recognizing the importance of having decent wages and benefits.'

Gordon Clark, former president, Transport
Workers Union (TWU) Local 530
(Kansas City)

 

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