Alessandro Natta Quotes

My heart lies with the workers.

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

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.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

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?

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

The shorter working day is the most essential thing in the lives of industrial workers. It means opportunities for life and self-development which are shut out by the whir of the machinery and the routine of the factory job at which the day is spent. It means also more efficiency on the job and better service to the employer.

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

Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we can do that and still be competitive on a global basis.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.

The American economy is driven and maintained by the exceptionalism of the women and men who make up our workforce; we must do everything we can to protect them.

I am on the side of the working person across the country.

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

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 believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

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.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

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

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.