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I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Our men and women in uniform are owed the right to protect themselves and others while in service of our country.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.