Change Quote by 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

“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if…

— Frank Tannenbaum

“The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce…

— Karl Marx

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

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

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position…

— Rose Schneiderman

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

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift…

— Charles M. Schwab

“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

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

— Jeremy Corbyn

“Britain's earlier development of strong and widespread labor unions, which were able to restrict the application of new technology, both directly and by appropriating…

— Thomas Sowell