Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years…

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

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

“Prism is the worst attack on personal freedom since 1939: Mallick U.S. snoopers know you are guilty - Don Radhay”

— Don Radhay

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with…

— Andy Stern

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

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

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent…

— Lech Walesa

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

— Noam Chomsky

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much…

— Robert Teeter

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

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