The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
I believe in every employee's right to not join a labor union or pay union dues if they so choose. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under. — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I - I was the first… — Henry Cuellar Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him… Shaking… — Cliff Asness Copy Share Image
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie. — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or… — Tom Latham Copy Share Image
I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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