Food safety Quote by Sherrod Brown

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices…

— Henry Giroux

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage,…

— Barack Obama

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for…

— Kshama Sawant

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

— Jimmy Carter

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at…

— Ralph Raico

Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to…

— Harry Bridges

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

“In the factory era, the goal was to have the highest PERL. Think about it. If you can easily replace most of your workers,…

— Seth Godin

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the…

— James Surowiecki

The reason why I got involved in labor was, quite honestly, my uncle was a business agent for the laborers union and he fought…

— Marty Walsh

Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought,…

— Elizabeth Warren

Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these…

— Jill Stein