Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

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.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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.

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

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.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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

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

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

I'm pro Union.

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

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.

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

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

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

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

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

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

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

[William Z.] Foster was a trade union organizer without a peer. In each case, however, his work was permitted and controlled by other forces which Foster had to serve....