Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.—Peter Rachleff, labor historian
A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
A. Philip Randolph
Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is
never given; it is exacted.—A. Philip Randolph
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.—A. Philip Randolph
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.—A. Philip Randolph
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.—A. Philip Randolph
Let the nation and the world know the meaning of our numbers.—A. Philip Randolph
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement traditionally has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.—A. Philip Randolph
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.—A. Philip Randolph
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.—A. Philip Randolph
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.—A. Philip Randolph
Let the nation and the world know the meaning of our numbers.—A. Philip Randolph
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement traditionally has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.—A. Philip Randolph
We're going to get together.
We're going to stay together. We're going to fight together.—Hank
Rauer, APWU, President New Jersey MidState Area Local
Walter Reuther (1907-1970)
Walter Reuther
Since all the workers in the industrial community
get the benefits of these services performed by the union, made possible by the
union, we believe that since all the workers share in the services all the
workers ought to share in the cost of providing those services.—Walter
Reuther
Too Old to Work--Too Young to Die!—Walter Reuther devised slogan in the UAW fight for pension plans
Management has no divine rights.—Walter Reuther
There's s a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.—Walter Reuther
Education is the golden key that unlocks the potential of human growth.—Walter Reuther
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie--labor is fighting for a larger pie.—Walter Reuther
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.—Walter Reuther
There is no greater calling than to serve your Brother. And, no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.—Walter Reuther
Too Old to Work--Too Young to Die!—Walter Reuther devised slogan in the UAW fight for pension plans
Management has no divine rights.—Walter Reuther
There's s a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.—Walter Reuther
Education is the golden key that unlocks the potential of human growth.—Walter Reuther
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie--labor is fighting for a larger pie.—Walter Reuther
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.—Walter Reuther
There is no greater calling than to serve your Brother. And, no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.—Walter Reuther
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pay for productivity or performance...is an FBI program - Friends, Brothers and In-Laws. That's the only people who will get a raise! —Steve Rooney, IAM District 70 Directing Business Representative
If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do would be to join a Union.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level --I mean the wages of decent living.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.—Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.—Harriet Rubin
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts.—Rumi, 13th century Persian poet and mystic
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears--by listening to them.—Dean Rusk
If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do would be to join a Union.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level --I mean the wages of decent living.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.—Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.—Harriet Rubin
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts.—Rumi, 13th century Persian poet and mystic
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears--by listening to them.—Dean Rusk
