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Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration. -- Edward Kennedy
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich. -- Warren Beatty
The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor. -- Thomas R. Donahue
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. -- Dolores Huerta
Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago. -- Roscoe Pound
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants -- Dave Beard
We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward. -- Deval Patrick
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?. -- Joe Biden
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world. -- Eugene V. Debs
A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is less formidable when questions which divide the entire nation are involved, for then it must take on organized labor and other large organized groups. The business community in the aggregate is for this reason not uniquely effective as a pressure group. -- Mancur Olson
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy. -- William Howard Taft
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society. -- Saul Alinsky
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. -- Dolores Huerta
We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen? -- Danny Aiello
We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials. -- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery. -- Frantz Fanon
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. -- John L. Lewis
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. -- Dolores Huerta
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor. -- Tom Hayden

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