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Andy Stern, SEIU President
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  The president of the Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern, joins us in studio to talk about the state of today's unions and their power in the next elections. He's also written a book called "A Country That Works", drawing on his own experiences as a social worker, father, organizer and labor leader to talk about where he sees the need for change in today's global economy.
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Dear Laura, As happens to often, we hear your program in the car and are not able to call in. Hopefully comments are better late than never. As a retired union tradesman, I was most interested in the program that day, and felt that there were a few other points that should have been made. Foremost is the overall good that unions have provided all working people in this country, good that I'm afraid we may lose in the future. None of us today worry about our kids having to work at grammer school age, or worry about dangerous work places when they do take a job, or worry that they will spend 12 to 14 hours a day, 6 days a week in a sweat ahop some where. It is because of unions that working conditions for all Americans have been improved. But how can we say that those things are important to us when we support practices that make others work and live that way. The truth can only be that they are not as important as they were, and to me that means those conditions will be back to visit us in the future. We hear so much talk about the "global community", But it seems to me that what we should be doing is to bring the world up to our level, rather than to take us down to theirs. Money is power, and the day will come that working people( the middle class) have none because we didn't protect our strengths.
Bill Nostrom
Newmarket