Andy Stern Quotes

Labor unions must have conflict in order to justify their existence.

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

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

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

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.

I will strengthen our unions and our middle-class families so that no longer will they be pushed around by employers but will finally have a seat at the table.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

The unions used to sell security. They can’t deliver any more.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

I will continue to do all that I can to ensure and enhance worker protections, including the right to bargain collectively.

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.

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.

Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!

Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.

South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.