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  • Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

    Heart   Giving   Salary  
    "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.
  • As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  • One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  • Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

  • The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!

    School   Men   Land  
    Address to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Convention, 1977.
  • My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

    Mother Jones (1988). “The speeches and writings of Mother Jones”
  • There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

    Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers, Vol. 22, 1970.
  • When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

  • Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

    Men   Race   Labor Day  
  • One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

  • If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

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

  • 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.

    "Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do". The American Federationist, Volume 24, 1917.
  • Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

    Struggle   Fighting   Pie  
    The New Republic, Vol. 114, 1946.
  • Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

    Progress   Unions   Force  
  • Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

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

    Men   Choices   Democracy  
    Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1978). “The papers: The chief of staff”
  • Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  • If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

    Funny   Money   Hard Work  
  • The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  • With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

    The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.
  • The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.

    Men   Two   America  
  • The people united will never be defeated.

  • It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

  • The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

  • Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

    "Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".
  • There was no one left to speak for me.

    "First they came". Poem by Martin Niemoller,
  • With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

    Honesty   Character   Men  
    The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.
  • The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

    Wendell Phillips (1891). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series”
  • Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

    United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”
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