there is nothing more American than the trade-union…

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

— Michael Foot

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

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

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

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden,…

— A. Philip Randolph

The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer…

— Bob Gunton

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

— Jeremy Corbyn

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the…

— Richard Rorty

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

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights…

— Barbara Castle

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 trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social…

— Samuel Gompers