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  • In a February interview with The Washington Post's Ezra Klein, Mr. Stern lamented the decline of organized labor's power and influence and waxed nostalgic about the movement's early days: "We had to do sit-down strikes and various other things.

    PATTERSON: Labor unions and communism →

  • "People are totally ready to get behind [Mr. Obama], but I think what they're not ready to give anybody is the benefit of the doubt that if we win an election and we all go home, things are going to change," said Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union. "That was probably the theory of the Obama election and taking over the House by the Democrats and the Senate as well. I think it was a failed strategy."

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