Michael Leunig Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.

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.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

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

My heart lies with the workers.

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.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

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.

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.

I am a proud trade unionist.

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.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

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

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

The labor question is the same the world over, and laborers of the world should clasp hands for their common wealth.

The Lincoln of Labor

To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

The labor union in enforcing a high scale of wages brings about the distribution of wealth throughout the entire community.