William Randolph Hearst Quotes

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

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

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

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

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

The labor movement has failed to capture the support of the public at large.

The labor question is the same the world over, and laborers of the world should clasp hands for their common wealth.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

Labor is marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

Fellow workers, this is the Continental Congress of the working class. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in possession of economic power.

Power? Nine workers out of ten still unorganized, and union dues going to bribe middle class politicians. You call that power?

My heart lies with the workers.

The labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth. Financiers are behind the unions and their object is to kill competition so as to reduce the income of the workers and eventually bring on war. We will never recognize the United Auto Workers Union.

Unions have long championed measures to reduce social and economic inequality, and efforts to weaken the labor movement at both the state and federal level have successfully stalled any progress.

For years, leaders in Columbus have launched an ideological attack on the working men and women of Ohio and their ability to collectively bargain for good wages and safe workplace conditions. That's wrong, and it has to stop.

When union membership goes down, so do wages.

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

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.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.