Unionism Quotes

18 quotes by 14 authors

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.… — Cesar Chavez
...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office.… — Cesar Chavez
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to… — H. L. Mencken
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough
If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country,… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations… — Eugene V. Debs
As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act… — Eugene V. Debs
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there… — Gerry Adams
There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism. — Gerry Adams
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the… — A. Philip Randolph
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in… — Rose Schneiderman
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument… — Leon Jouhaux
Arthur Scargillâ€™s leadership of the minersâ€™ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have… — Jimmy Reid
I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism. — Charles Kennedy
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and… — Frances O'Grady
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? — George Bernard Shaw
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a… — Seamus Heaney

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