Capitalism Quote by Pope Francis

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

— Jeremy Corbyn

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

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 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

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

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 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 trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Marty Walsh

“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

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