Crafts Quote by Ray Stannard Baker

What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of…

— Meridel Le Sueur

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort,…

— Paul Clark

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

— Stanley Baldwin

“Now, years later and with Carnegie’s blessing, Frick had launched his plan to further consolidate his rule over their industrial kingdom by destroying the…

— James McGrath Morris

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the…

— Richard Grimes

“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

“And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror, including bombings,…

— Charles Brandt

“The workers stayed in the plant instead of walking out, and this had clear advantages: they were directly blocking the use of strikebreakers; they…

— Howard Zinn

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only…

— Michael Gove

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the…

— Danny Glover

“One of the girls read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for the oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and…

— Upton Sinclair

In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of bosses. Repressive…

— Owen Jones