And the success of the union movement, historically, has…

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

— Ronald Reagan

In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.

— Cynthia Dill

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

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

— Michael Foot

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a…

— Andy Stern

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— John Sweeney