Government Quote by Roscoe Pound

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

— Dolores Huerta

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are…

— William Petty

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a…

— Jacques Delors

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become…

— Anonymous

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

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which…

— Leland Stanford

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery…

— Sharan Burrow

“When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of…

— Jack London

The labor movement must be destroyed.

— Karl Rove

“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

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

— Dolores Huerta

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

— Ronald Reagan