Change Quote by Frank Tannenbaum

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but…

— Sidney Lens

“The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity.”

— Charles Brandt

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden,…

— A. Philip Randolph

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

— Pope Francis

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…

— Leon Jouhaux

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent…

— Lech Walesa

The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly,…

— Bill Shorten

“to reverse today’s inequality requires a robust embrace of unions—but of unions that are democratic, focused on bottom-up rather than top-down strategies, and place…

— Jane F. McAlevey

“There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their…

— Walter Lippmann