Gavin Newsom Quotes

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

The Lincoln of Labor

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

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

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

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.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

The history of all countries shows that, by its own efforts, the working class can develop only a trade-union consciousness—that is, the realization of the need of getting together in unions in order to fight employers and to demand from the government the passing of laws necessary for the workers.

It is gratifying that societies of this kind [labor unions], composed either of workers alone or of workers and employers together, are being formed everywhere, and it is truly to be desired that they grow in number and in active vigor.

Mitchell is only a common coal miner who has worked with his hands for 15 years, and is now a labor agitator. Any negotiations with him would unduly recognize a mere rabble-rouser..

And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively. That's not only fair, it makes workers more productive, it strengthens our economy.

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.

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

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

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

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.