Meany Goes To Mountain

(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").