The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What…

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the…

— Howard Zinn

“When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers…

— Milton Friedman

“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise…

— Michael Harrington

You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be…

— John Peter Altgeld

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

— Bill Shorten

The one thing that everyone knows about America is people will say, I know my rights. One of those rights is the right to…

— Raj Patel

Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where…

— J. D. Vance

We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are…

— Cesar Chavez

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to…

— Cesar Chavez

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

— Cesar Chavez

The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many…

— Cesar Chavez

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and…

— Cesar Chavez

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international…

— Cesar Chavez

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system -…

— Cesar Chavez

Corporations are driving down wages and working conditions across the globe to maximize returns for their shareholders. They use their power and influence to…

— Winnie Byanyima