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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.

— John L. Lewis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

— Keith Ellison

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

— Lech Walesa

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

— Tim Bishop

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

— Andy Stern

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

— Eric Schneiderman

Workers' rights are under attack across the country.

— Elizabeth Esty

✗Opposing Perspectives

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

— Rodrigo Duterte

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

— Frances O'Grady