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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
“Jacqueline Jones argues, “Race signifies neither a biological fact, nor a primal prejudice, and it lacks the coherence of a robust political… — Steven Stoll Copy Share Image
“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history… — Ronald Geigle Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
“The carnival of carnage that takes place every day, month and year in the realm of industry; the thousands of useful lives… — D. Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
All of the youth ferment on campuses is a very good thing. Lots of people are being permanently transformed and will do… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which… — Avik Roy 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
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
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
“...[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
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
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
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
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