The union movement has been the best middle class job…

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children,…

— John Sweeney

Like I said in one of my songs, as a man, you're at your best when you're middle age.

— Benny the Butcher

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

— John Sweeney

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong…

— Warren Beatty

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually…

— John T. Flynn

The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination…

— Hilary Benn

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working,…

— Frances O'Grady

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

— Dick Durbin

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not…

— Andy Stern

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow…

— Carl von Ossietzky

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize…

— Warren Beatty

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political…

— David Harvey

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist…

— Arthur Scargill

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement…

— Angela Davis