Al’s been heading down to the picket lines and rallies to support the University of Minnesota workers striking for a living wage. He’s a member of four unions himself, and he takes the issue very seriously. On Monday, he caught up with the university’s paper, the Minnesota Daily.

Franken said higher education has been a concern of his before the strike, and it would continue to be after the dispute is resolved.

He expressed a concern that the University is moving backward.

“We now have a country in which the gap between those at the top and those toward the bottom is getting wider and wider,” Franken said. “The University is not the place to be going in the wrong direction.”

Franken said it’s important for University students to learn from this strike.

“Students here need to know, they need to be reminded what unions and what labor is about,” Franken said. “The unions gave this country a middle class. The unions gave this country the weekend.

“Imagine that, a learning moment at a University,” he said.

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