Activity Quote by Mancur Olson

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

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

— Jeremy Corbyn

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

One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the…

— Eugene V. Debs

I think unions are a good thing, but sometimes, not to get too political, but unions can go the wrong way, but the idea…

— Benson Henderson

Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the…

— Sharan Burrow

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

— Lane Kirkland

Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

— Charles Duhigg

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social…

— Samuel Gompers

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Marty Walsh