Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie. — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I believe in every employee's right to not join a labor union or pay union dues if they so choose. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I - I was the first… — Henry Cuellar Copy Share Image
I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already… — Frank Tannenbaum Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under. — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a… — Paul Clark Copy Share Image
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union.… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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