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Child labor and poverty
are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children
as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty
and child labor to the end of time.
-- Grace
Abbott *
The
first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising
of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working
children could not attend school.
-- Grace
Abbott |
When
you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people
keeping their money.
-- Alice Adams
Union
gives strength.
-- Aesop
| Today,
although there are still sweatshops and other inhumane working conditions for
many workers around the world, the labor movement has won numerous victories that
many of us take for granted, such as the 5-day work week, 8-hour work day, paid
holidays and the end of child labor.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
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Power goes
to two poles -- to those who've got the money and those who've got the people.
-- Saul Alinksy |
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*
"As
labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as
may be necessary to protect it in all its rights."
-- John
Peter Altgeld |
*
This
is the spirit that is back of all the great struggles of the workers to improve
their working conditions. Liberty and freedom for collective bargaining is what
they want and what they must have.
-- Mary
Anderson Equal
pay for women is a matter of simple justice.
-- Mary
Anderson |
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*
Join
the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
-- Susan
B. Anthony | 
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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
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*
How
are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because
of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that
for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn’t even exist? Work, as distinguished
from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and
artistry, and nurture cooperation.
-- Grace
Lee Boggs | 
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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
 | *
“We
are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according
to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children
in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves
in the world than at any other time in history.”
-- Charlotte Bunch |
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
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*
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 |
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*
The
strength of the movement is still something that you will never see on camera,
because it doesn't happen at the big protests. But the strength of this movement
is rooted in the strength of its components and of the campaigns of its components.
So there are farm movements around the world; there are environmental movements
around the world; labor movements around the world involved in daily struggles
around living wages, around protecting the rights of farmers to their seeds, and
so on. Those struggles continue on a daily basis; they have not gone away.
-- John Cavanagh |
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 | 
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Labor
Unions are the leading force for democratization and progress.
-- Noam
Chomsky | 
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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
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*
"This
is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable
hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood."
--
John R. Commons
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The
superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit.
-- Confucius
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*
There
is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
-- Bill
Cosby |
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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