Tony Danza Quotes

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.

Chefs don't have a union. We don't have a Screen Actor's Guild.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

I'm pro Union.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

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.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

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

I am a proud trade unionist.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

Models need to be unionized.

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.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.