Community Quote by Jim Ratcliffe

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part…

— Jimmy Smits

I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had…

— Noam Chomsky

I feel unions are important because they built the middle class, and they can preserve the middle class.

— Marty Walsh

I think unions started as a good thing back in the day, but they've turned into a monster.

— Matt Hughes

“The era of young adults graduating from high school, joining a union, and making a good living at a factory—working class on the job…

— Chris Farrell

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social…

— Angus Deaton

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the…

— Tony Danza

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

— Noam Chomsky

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

— Matt de la Pena

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was…

— Dick Gephardt

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer…

— Frances O'Grady

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

— Stanley Baldwin