Karen Nussbaum Quotations

We're seeing the natural consequences of unbridled corporate power to reduce wages and benefits. That's why people are working two jobs and still cannot afford food.

For people who do not have a union on the job, we provide a way for people to speak out on issues that affect working families.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

There is still a wage gap in every single job classification except one or two, ... There still is discrimination in pay in equal jobs.

A collective bargaining agreement is not the only way a labor movement can represent workers.

That companies are making money and still can't pay a living wage seems obscene, ... (Corporations) will say they have to suppress wages to provide low-cost consumer products and services, but they don't tell you about the unbelievable profits they enjoy and the huge paychecks being reaped at the top.

Who does the work is a big part of why women earn less. You can look at it from two very different types of jobs -- child-care worker and parking-lot attendant. Guess who earns more? Parking-lot attendants. That work is valued more by our society than a child-care worker.

We'll be part of labor's 2006 mobilization plan.