Meany Goes To Mountain
Monday, February 7, 2005(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Martha Mountain is this week’s winner of the Quote of the Week Contest;
Martha’s name was randomly selected from those who answered that it was
AFL-CIO President George Meany who said ”Labor never quits. We never
give up the fight – no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it
takes.” Meany called the labor movement the “people’s lobby”; find out
more about him here.
Honorable mentions to: Ilene Ferrell (who says “These are definitely words to
live by, spoken by a great man, and his leadership and vision continue with
every graduate of the George Meany Center - National Labor College"), Robert
Lucore, Scott Wilson, Jordan Barab, Joe Horgan, Clayton Nall, Sharlene Kranz,
Diana Price, Alan Freeman, Hunter Phillips, Lisa Kelly, Monica Silbas, Loretta
Reinersmann and Richard Prosten (who waggishly notes “Well, Winston Churchill
said part of those things, but I'll go with another fellow who had a certain
bulldoggish aura about him").