Shop Steward Quotes in I'm All Right Jack (1959)

Shop Steward: Perhaps you can explain the presence of this new man.

Major Hitchcock: New man? But he hasn't started yet.

Shop Steward: Hasn't started yet? Then what's he doing on a f-f-f fork lift truck?

Fred Kite: Me and my colleagues are the Works Committee. Would you mind producing your union card.

Stanley Windrush: I'm afraid I can't. It's not compulsory, is it?

Shop Steward: No, it's not compulsory. Only you've *got* to join, see?

Shop Steward: You c-c-c-clot!

Shop Steward: No one can predict how the market forces change. Sometimes you have too much stuff, sometimes too little. But I can say that I'd had to keep you here with us.

Ilona Rajamäki: Sure.

Shop Steward: But there's nothing I can do about it. I just sit here and watch sales graph. There is a new supermarket somewhere around here with all their special offers and so on... So our sales will go down temporarily. You're the only one on probationary period and that's why you have to go. The supermarket's is a merciless machine. I hope you understand.

Ilona Rajamäki: Your daughter finishes school in two weeks. She needs a job. You don't fool me.