Sarah Lacy Quotes

The labor movement was a reaction to capitalism.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

Unquestionably unions and their leaders are not always wise and fair any more than any other human beings. There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation.

Labor unions have already inflicted an evil on this country which they could never entirely repair.

The decline of the trade union is to some extent inevitable and irreversible.

And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively. That's not only fair, it makes workers more productive, it strengthens our economy.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

We were no experts in the field of labor organization, but we had something in common with our fellow workers -- we were all poor -- we were all overworked -- we were all victims of the 84 hour week. In fact, we were all so low down on the economic and social ladder that we had nowhere to go but up

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Regardless of the degree of class consciousness of their members, the trade unions are, by their very nature, driven on to the revolutionary goal.

The history of all countries shows that, by its own efforts, the working class can develop only a trade-union consciousness—that is, the realization of the need of getting together in unions in order to fight employers and to demand from the government the passing of laws necessary for the workers.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to...I like the system which lets a man quit when he wants to and wish it might prevail everywhere.

It's impossible to write the history of freedom in this country without telling how trade unions have contributed to it.