“What is the labor movement all about? The kind of labor movement we are building in the CIO is not a labor movement committed to a nickel-in-the-pay envelope kind of philosophy; it is a labor movement that says that we have to mobilize workers in the economic field and then apply that power to the struggle in the political field as citizens, and to the consumers field as organized consumers.”
American labor leader and civil rights activist Walter Reuther (at far left) built the United Automobile Workers into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history.
American labor leader and civil rights activist Walter Reuther (at far left) built the United Automobile Workers into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history.