Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

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

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

It is essential that there be organization of labor…. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Models need to be unionized.

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

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 labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.

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

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

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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

Show me a country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country is which there is no liberty.

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

Duty of the Catholic Worker to Join Organized Labor

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

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.

The labor movement was a reaction to capitalism.

The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.