Disappear Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

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

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

— Jeremy Corbyn

Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go up. If…

— Nina Turner

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting…

— Eugene V. Debs

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

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

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's…

— Jim DeMint

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

— Marty Walsh

“Once government undertakes to determine the whole wage structure and is thereby forced to control employment and production, there will be a far greater…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has…

— Michael Moore