#labor movement

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. ↗

— Holly Near

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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. ↗

— John Sweeney

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The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? ↗

— Andy Stern

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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. ↗

— Angela Davis

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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. ↗

— Angela Davis

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So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date. ↗

— William Kunstler

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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. ↗

— Andy Stern

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