Rose Schneiderman Quotes

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I am a proud trade unionist.

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore.

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

The trade union, which originated under the European system, destroys liberty.

The decline of the trade union is to some extent inevitable and irreversible.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

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 economy.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

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

The teamsters union is as free of corruption as any great institution.

There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation

Unquestionably unions and their leaders are not always wise and fair any more than any other human beings. There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation.

Modern trade unions understood that deciphering a balance sheet was more important than decoding Das Kapital.

I'm not anti-union.

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.