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Unions have been fighting the 1 percent vs 99 percent fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight.
Dave Johnson
Before you kill something, make sure you have something better to replace it with.
Charles Bukowski
poet and postal worker
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
Pete Seeger
”Every time that someone has an experience with some part of worker culture or labor culture, they can understand things about themselves as well as understanding about other people.”
John Beck
Organizer of MSU's "Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Alexander The Great
“Workers Over Billionaires”
Sign at 2/5/25 anti-Musk/DOGE rally at the Department of Labor
"Decent work isn't a privilege, it's a human right!"
International Labour Organization (ILO)
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
Albert Einstein
'If the workers demand it, then I must support them and take them on strike.'
Dr. Datta Samant
Militant Indian trade union leader and politician, murdered by hired gunmen on 12/16/97; Samant led nearly 250,000 textile workers in Mumbai on a year-long strike in 1982.
Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.
Evan Esar
“You don’t gain any special knowledge from being marginalized. But you do gain something from stepping outside your hurt and examining the scaffolding of your oppression.”
Kaliane Bradley
From her book "The Ministry of Time"
“I have tried in my art to express truth, beauty, justice, humor.”
William Gropper
Whose show Artist of the People is on view at The Phillips Collection through January 5, 2025