"We Have to Be There for Each Other's Fights"

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“We need to look for opportunities to link to other fights in our communities. We need to connect them, from Hyatt Hotels to Verizon stores to the postal workers’ campaign. If we’re there for each other, we all start winning. It’s all about building a movement. We can’t hope for it, we can’t wait for it. We have to fight for it.” — CWA President Larry Cohen

“On Sept. 1, workers from 43 different locals – musicians, car wash workers, iron workers, stagehands, plus students working for immigration reform — leafleted at Verizon stores across Los Angeles County. One member said, ‘I’m a school bus driver and school starts tomorrow. But I’ll use my lunch hour to help out.’ That’s because we know that you are fighting for all of us and we’ll be there, standing together with you, shoulder to shoulder.” — Maria Elena Durazo, president, Los Angeles County AFL-CIO

“Without people standing up, every worker will suffer. We’re putting these corporations on record that we will support the fights of workers around the world.”  — Neil Anderson, president, UNI Postal

“We know we have a certain power as younger consumers and that we present a real dilemma for corporations that mistreat their workers. Verizon and especially Verizon Wireless care a great deal about what young people think about their company. But they’re counting on us being apathetic about how they treat their employees. They couldn’t be more wrong.”  — Jack Mahoney, United Students Against Sweatshops

“UNITE HERE members see this as a tremendous opportunity to tell corporate America, ‘we won’t let you destroy what people have worked their whole lives to achieve. We’re with you because this is what we all need. We can remain divided or we can unite and fight back.”  — John Wilhelm, president, UNITE HERE