Worker Union Quotes

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.

We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the head men.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

It is essential that there be organization of labor…. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

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

I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had a couple of weeks in the country for a union installation and they had educational programs and all sorts of things. There was a life, you know, a real community.

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

Models need to be unionized.