John Sweeney Families Quotations

Working families need and deserve Supreme Court justices who understand and respect the importance of hard-fought rights and protections, not justices who take an unduly narrow view of the law.

Maryland's working families have sent a clear message to local governments across the country and corporate America by demanding health care fairness -- and winning.

Wages are flat or falling. Health care costs for families with employer coverage shot up 79 percent from 1996 to 2003. Imagine the hit on families struggling to make it without job-based coverage.

Eight years of Clinton-Gore haven't been enough to repair the damage of 12 years of Reagan and Bush. Al Gore is running for president as the champion of working families and unions.

I mean, we're trying to protect the interests of working families and these attacks in several different areas have been directed at workers.