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You can't do it unless you organize.
The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.