Ability Quote by Warren Beatty

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

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

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

— Danny Glover

“to reverse today’s inequality requires a robust embrace of unions—but of unions that are democratic, focused on bottom-up rather than top-down strategies, and place…

— Jane F. McAlevey

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children,…

— John Sweeney

“A union is only as strong as its weakest member. Once there is dissension the employer senses it and takes advantage of it. Once…

— Charles Brandt

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

“union’, you at the same time license the would-be leaders. You give credentials to those who promise to guide society along its allotted path,…

— Roger Scruton

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think…

— Andy Stern

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of…

— Gerry Adams

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

— Henry George

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

— Marty Walsh