College Quote by Jimmy Smits

The reason why I got involved in labor was, quite honestly, my uncle was a business agent for the laborers union and he fought…

— Marty Walsh

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent…

— Jim Ratcliffe

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

— Al Lewis

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

— John Wells

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 mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked…

— Hilda Solis

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only…

— Andres Segovia

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

— Jennie Garth