Unions quotes:

Send

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. -- Samuel Gompers
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. -- John Ruskin
Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. -- Ronald Reagan
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. -- Susan B. Anthony
--
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. -- Clarence Darrow
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen. -- Cesar Chavez
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. -- James Connolly
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor. -- John F. Kennedy
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good. -- Pope Paul VI
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it! -- Hubert H. Humphrey
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. -- Clarence Darrow
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe. -- David Cameron
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. -- Molly Ivins
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes. -- Cesar Chavez
Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs. -- Richard Shelby
I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions -- Margaret Thatcher
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. -- Tony Kushner
--
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs. -- Lucretius
Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests. -- Andy Stern
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. -- Aeschylus
Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country. -- Bruce Springsteen
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers. -- James Cook
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians. -- Thomas Sowell
Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids. -- Sarah Lacy
Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people. -- Richard Llewellyn
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living. -- James P. Hoffa
Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor. -- Vicki Sue Robinson
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity. -- Lech Walesa
Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly. -- John Stossel
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly. -- Herman Gorter
Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law. -- Jim Ratcliffe
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history. -- Alison Weir
Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers. -- Rush Limbaugh
--
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy. -- Hilda Solis
That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower. -- James P. Hoffa
Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits. -- Suze Orman
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. -- Arthur Scargill
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. -- Scott Walker
--
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. -- Stephen Harper
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. -- Fritz Sauckel
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. -- Jeb Bush
--
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce. -- Harry Bridges
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. -- Robert Reich
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. -- Grover Norquist
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. -- James Surowiecki
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. -- Tony Blair
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. -- Steven Spielberg
You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency. -- Frank Wolf
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders. -- James Dobson
2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation. -- Kevin Rudd
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off. -- Gail Collins
I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. -- Juan Williams
The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1 -- Alexis de Tocqueville
As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' -- David T. Hardy
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis. -- Criss Jami
I certainly support civil unions. -- Carly Fiorina
Before there were unions, there was no middle class. -- Michael Moore
They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers. -- Chris Christie
I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions. -- Nikki Haley
Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics. -- Barack Obama
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners. -- Barry Goldwater
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. -- Aneurin Bevan
The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then. -- Fritz Sauckel
Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management. -- Evan Esar
There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit. -- Will Rogers
The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party. -- Eli Broad
Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things. -- Arne Duncan
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust. -- Andy Hargreaves
When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized. -- Danny Glover
When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me. -- Harry Triguboff
The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions. -- Evan Esar
If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks. -- Bernie Sanders
They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed. -- Noam Chomsky
Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. -- Jacques Delors
Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government. -- Jonah Goldberg
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. -- Jacques Delors
We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina. -- Nikki Haley
Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates. -- Greg Walden
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights. -- Gisela Stuart
Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions. -- Sherrod Brown
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. -- Bill de Blasio
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. -- Karl Marx
I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people. -- John Wells
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. -- Stephen F. Lynch
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. -- Dolores Huerta
There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s. -- Duncan Green
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. -- Louis D. Brandeis
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon. -- Friedrich Engels
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow. -- Thomas E. Mann
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. -- Jeb Bush
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. -- Jacques Delors
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys? -- Randall Terry
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence. -- Henry Ford
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman. -- Craig Ferguson
Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions. -- Luis Fortuno
It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage. -- Jens Spahn
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. -- Newt Gingrich
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students. -- Ruth J. Simmons
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. -- Edmund Phelps
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. -- Stanley Baldwin
I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. -- John Sweeney
The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful. -- Noam Chomsky
A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right. -- Eric Bolling
[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there. -- Noam Chomsky
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. -- Charles Duhigg

Send