The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor. — Thomas R. Donahue Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration. — Edward Kennedy 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
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under. — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago. — Roscoe Pound 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
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing… — Danny Aiello Copy Share Image
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American… — Jimmy Carter 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
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 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
Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America.… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Late in the evening, someone in the White House decided to vent to Ben Smith: 'A senior White House official just called… — Jim Geraghty 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
Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that,… — Dolores Huerta 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
Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
