Breakdown Quote by Adrienne Rich

What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of…

— Meridel Le Sueur

Putting roadblocks in the way of legitimate strike action only increases the likelihood of more wildcat strikes, which in turn will make it that…

— Emily Thornberry

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort,…

— Paul Clark

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them…

— John F. Kennedy

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom…

— Ray Stannard Baker

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the…

— Richard Grimes

We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every…

— Charles M. Schwab

From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local…

— Jan Schakowsky

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful…

— Mary Harris Jones

“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.”

— Tim Parks

In union there is strength.

— Aesop

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

— James P. Hoffa