MLK On Labor Rights

April 4th, 2011

Those who have used today to suggest that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was not a progressive or was unconcerned with the right to organize are just plain lying.

"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped." -- speaking about right-to-work laws in 1961

Quote Of The Day

March 20th, 2011

"I know from experience it is up to the working people to save themselves and the only way is through a strong working class movement."-- Rose Schneiderman

Quote Of The Day

Mar 2nd, 2011

"If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, 


what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread?" -- Lucy Parsons

A Reminder...

Feb 26th, 2011

Today is the day to turn out and show solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin! Find out WHERE TO GO.

Please SIGN THE PETITION to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Quote Of The Day 3 - Wisconsin Solidarity Edition 2/26

Feb 26th, 2011

Today is the day to turn out and show solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin! Find out WHERE TO GO.

Please SIGN THE PETITION to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends." -- Leland Stanford

Quote Of The Day 2 - Wisconsin Solidarity Edition 2/26

Feb 26th, 2011

Today is the day to turn out and show solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin! Find out WHERE TO GO.

Please SIGN THE PETITION to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

"The labor unions are group efforts in the direction of democracy. Like the political efforts in the same direction, they become many times stultified and lead up blind alleys. But the effort creates power. While the economic gains are themselves important and are measures of strength, the significance of the labor union is its assertion of the manhood of labor." -- Helen Marot

Unfair Comparisons?

Feb 26th, 2011

Today is the day to turn out and show solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin! Find out WHERE TO GO.
Please SIGN THE PETITION to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Quote Of The Day - Wisconsin Solidarity Edition 2/26

Feb 26th, 2011

Today is the day to turn out and show solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin! Find out WHERE TO GO.

Please SIGN THE PETITION to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men." -- Clarence Darrow

Quote Of The Day

Feb 25th, 2011

"We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few; but we can't have both." -- Louis Brandeis

Quote Of The Day 2 - Solidarity Edition

Feb 19th, 2011

"Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor." -- JOHN F. KENNEDY

Quote Of The Day

Feb 18th, 2011

"When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal." --Leland Stanford