In order to have a level playing field, a repeal of Taft-Hartley would be high on our agenda. More workers would be in unions if the law wasn't so stacked against them. First of all, if you file for an election, it takes years and years. It's not like the European system, where, if you sign one person up, you practically have a union. People vote for unions, it's just that we have a winner take all system.
American elections demonstrate that, probably more than anywhere else in the world.
If 35 percent of people vote for a union here, you get beat. In Europe, you have a whole different legal system that grew out of a political process in which workers have some say. It has a lot of levers. If the people are in motion around a set of proposals they feel would advance their interest, they would frame the issues and they would force existing legislators, regardless of their party, to react to that. I'm for a party that begins to create a tempo, that changes the nature of the political dialogue and ultimately, will vie for electoral office.