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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
The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity. -- Robert Dallek
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. -- Bill de Blasio
I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people. -- John Wells
I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union. -- John Wells
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow. -- Thomas E. Mann
I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. -- John Sweeney
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
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
In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies. -- Felix Rohatyn
Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like. -- Harvey Weinstein
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions. -- Mark McKinnon
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. -- Charles M. Schwab
Labor must work harder to attract and retain members. The party should be cheaper to join with discounted rates available for union members as well as for students, pensioners, and people out of work. -- Bill Shorten
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen. -- Tom Latham
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s. -- Linda Chavez
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. -- Grover Norquist
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing. -- Rose Schneiderman
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. -- Simone Weil
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? -- Frederic Bastiat
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. -- Linda Chavez
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

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