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Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round. -- Richard Trumka
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. -- Jacques Delors
My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. -- Michael Leunig
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina. -- Al Lewis
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
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job. -- Amity Shlaes
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. -- Arthur Scargill
As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets. -- Bill Dedman
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
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality. -- Andrew Cuomo
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. -- Samuel Gompers
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. -- Fritz Sauckel
The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. -- Andy Stern
It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce. -- Harry Bridges
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
Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses. -- Mitt Romney
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

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