Leaders have had good things to say about unions!
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 "If a man
tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar!" Abraham
Lincoln |
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 "If
capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to
capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that
implies the right of men to capitalize their labor." Frank
Lloyd Wright |
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 "Only a
fool would try to deprive workingmen and workingwomen of the right to
join the union of their choice." Dwight D.
Eisenhower |
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 "I consider
it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get
together, both to protect their own economic status and, also generally
speaking, to secure their influence in the political field." Albert
Einstein (commenting on why he joined the American Federation of
Teachers, AFL-CIO) |
| Einstein (1879-1955) was a member of the American
Federation of Teachers. In fact, he was a founding member of
AFT Local Union 552, the Princeton Federation of Teachers, and was
a signer of the application for the local's charter in 1938.
He taught at Princeton after fleeing Germany during the rise of
Adolf Hitler earlier in the '30s. From
"Label Letter," Union Label & Service Trades
Department, AFL-CIO, March 2000. |
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 "The
American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to
the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America." John
F. Kennedy |
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 "If I went
to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do would be to join a
union." Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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 "We need
unions to make sure that working people have a legitimate and consistent
voice." Senator Orrin Hatch, R. Utah, quoted
in Business Week magazine, May 9, 1994 |
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 "Join the
union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work." Susan
B. Anthony, The Revolution (woman suffrage newspaper) March 18, 1869 |
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