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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. -- Dolores Huerta
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence. -- Henry Ford
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang. -- Rudy Giuliani
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world. -- Jimmy Hoffa
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. -- John F. Kennedy
The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him.... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power. -- Cliff Asness
The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions. -- Warren Farrell
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. -- Eric Hoffer
Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy. -- Saul Alinsky
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day. -- Roseanne Barr
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom. -- A. Philip Randolph
Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists. -- Jack Kirby
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. -- Haley Barbour
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing. -- John Shelton Reed
Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington. -- Steve Kroft
I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union. -- John Wells
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. -- Cesar Chavez
My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices. -- Hilda Solis
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community. -- Jimmy Smits
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement. -- Rose Schneiderman
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours. -- Eugene V. Debs

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