Labor Quotes

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When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.
-- Alice Adams

Union gives strength.
-- Aesop

Power goes to two poles -- to those who've got the money and those who've got the people. -- Saul Alinksy

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. -- Susan B. Anthony

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life --Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
-- Bill Bailey

We are not complaining about the work. We want to see our hard work reflected in our pay.
-- Emmett J. Bogdon

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
-- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."
-- Harry Bridges

The quality of employees will be directly proportional to the quality of life you maintain for them.
-- Charles E. Bryan

The role of a labor union is to ensure that the balance is not tipped in favor of the employer when employees do not receive wages and benefits commensurate with their contribution.
-- William Burrus

The history of America has been largely created by the deeds of its working people and their organizations--there is scarcely an issue that is not influenced by labor’s organized efforts or lack of them.
-- William Cahn, Labor historian

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. -- Jimmy Carter

Management doesn't seem to understand the importance of the human factor.
-- Charles, Prince of Wales

The people united will never be defeated. -- Cesar Chavez The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. -- Cesar Chavez We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. -- Cesar Chavez

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. -- Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm

Labor Unions are the leading force for democratization and progress. -- Noam Chomsky

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they become powerless. The strike is therefore not a breakdown of collective bargaining-it is the indispensable cornerstone of that process.
-- Paul Clark

If you object to unfair treatment, you're an ingrate. If you seek equity and fair consideration, you're uppity. If you demand union security, you're un-American. If you rebel against repressive management tactics, they will lynch and scalp you. But if you are passive and patient, they will take advantage of both.
-- Congressman William Clay, Sr.

"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor"
-- William Cobbett

The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit.
-- Confucius

Plato told Aristotle no one should make more than five times the pay of the lowest member of society. J.P. Morgan said 20 times. Jesus advocated a negative differential -- that's why they killed him.
-- Graef Crystal

 

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