#unions

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#america #chicago #commissioned #i #immigrant

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests. ↗

— Andy Stern

#members #party #political #political party #should

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses. ↗

— Andy Stern

#after #been #big #big corporations #big government

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys? ↗

— Randall Terry

#before #between #homosexual #how #just

The pot that had simmered for fifty years boiled over. Colliers and miners, furnacemen and tram-road labourers were flooding down the valley to the Chartists' rendezvous: men from Dowlais under the Guests, Cyfartha under the Crawshays, Nantyglo under Bailey and a thousand forges and bloomeries in the hills: men of the farming Welsh, the Staffordshire specialists and the labouring Irish were taking to arms. ↗

— Alexander Cordell

#revolt #trade-unions #wales #men

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#most #organized #people #respected #rights

The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#auto #bankruptcy #been #companies #court

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#association #authorities #become #fact #founded