Rose Schneiderman Quotes

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

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

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

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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

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

Many of those who helped to lay the foundations of the trade union movement were men who had been through the experience of Socialism and found their way to sounder policies.

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.

Trade unionism means the enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie.

Duty of the Catholic Worker to Join Organized Labor

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

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

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

I've never bashed a union in my life.

To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.

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

I am a proud trade unionist.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.