J. K. Rowling Quotes

I'm not anti-union.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Republicans are always much more supportive of unions in Poland than they are of unions in the United States.

The teamsters union is as free of corruption as any great institution.

The weapon of political action. That is going to be the main fighting weapon of all labor, international as well as national, if we are going to do those things that we are in business to do as a labor union

I believe if an individual wants to join organized labor and work under a union contract, they should have the legal right to do so. At the same token, a person who does not want to work under organized labor and wants to work should have the ability to do so without the threat of having to join and having to pay dues to organized labor.

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

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

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.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

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.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

A divided labor movement hurts the prospects of union members and it makes me very angry.