Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .
I'm running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who sounds the same on the factory floor as he does on the Senate floor.
I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
I will stand with unions wholeheartedly, and that's the problem - the Democratic Party wants to say that, but their actions do not mirror that.
...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.
The 'Living-Wage Campaign' at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it's going to strike, but wonder only when and how hard.
Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.
I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.
I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.
I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.
We know that the organized workers of the country are our friends. As for the rest, they don't matter a tinker's cuss.
I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.
From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.
My job is to represent working people.
I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.
