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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."
"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."
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