Roy Choi Quotes

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.

It is my mission to make sure SAG-AFTRA protects our members' ability to do the work they love and to build their lives around it.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

Models need to be unionized.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

Unions may also legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only available means to the justice owed to workers

The most fervid demand, however, of all the workers on strike was for a shorter day … 10½ hours instead or 13 hours as formerly, or even 14 and 16 reckoning the time of cleaning machinery.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says 'actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that's one thing that keeps me humble.

My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.

My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.

I work in the tech industry and my husband works in biotech. He's head of IP for a company listed on the NASDAQ. And we have a lot of discussions in tech and biotech about the role of unionization in our industries.

I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.

My job is to represent working people.

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.