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I have been all my life. I've never crossed a picket line. I have boycotted anti-union companies and those whose employees were on strike.

To me, anti-union means anti-worker and I will always be pro-worker. Maybe it's because I understand that when union employees fight, they fight not only for themselves and their livelihoods, they fight for everybody. We all win when unions win.

Many years ago, my mother lived in John Conyers' district in Detroit. We went to some kind of rally in a union hall to hear him speak. On the walls were pictures of striking workers getting abused by police back in the 30s and 40s. It really affected me. We must never forget how hard those who came before us fought for basic human dignity and fairness on the job and we must never allow anyone to ever take it away from us.