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“Wage theft steals more money than all property crime combined every year.”
April Verrett
SEIU president
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first
Pete Seeger
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
Eugene Victor Debs
”We have micro rebellions at all times, and that is what a strike is.”
Sarah Bond
Historian, author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard Kipling
Author
“Poetic justice has been meted out.”
October 29 is celebrated as “John Mitchell Day” in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where a statue of Mitchell, who led the United Mine Workers of America from 1898-1908 was erected in 1924, in remembrance of Mitchell’s success in the “Great Strike” of 1900 when over 100,000 anthracite miners struck, returning to work on this date.
John Mitchell
Led the United Mine Workers of America from 1898-1908
“Those who label us communists every time we open our mouths to gain our rights…don’t know the difference between Communism and rheumatism…”
Joe Johnson
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, who told attendees of the National Negro Labor Council Convention:
"Agitation for the purpose of organization; organization for the purpose of rebellion."
Manifesto of the International Working Peoples' Association
Founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Oct 14, 1883
These baristas are a true inspiration and they're representative of this whole generation of young people who're ready to stand up and fight.
Mark Mori
Director, "Baristas vs Billionaires"
“We Battle for Our Rights.”
Progressive Farmers and Householders Union
From their constitution
“We condemn all wars…promoting class solidarity among the workers of the entire world.”
IWW
From the anti-war resolution passed by the IWW's 1916 convention
“The most important single incident in the labor movement in the United States.”
Samuel Gompers
AFL founder, referring to the 1900 "Great Coal Strike"