Employee Representation Quotes

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

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

Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent.

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

Union busting has become an art form.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

The New Deal Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act which granted unrestricted sovereign power to the barons of union labor.

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

A journal produced by office-boys for office-boys.

The unions do a really good job in standing up for workers' rights and business does a very good job advocating for opportunities in this state. I don't believe the two have to operate independently.

There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.

I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

The most important aspect of my signing with the WFL was not to demean or undermine the National Football League, but rather to make professional football a form of employment where management recognizes its workers as individuals capable of communicating on an intelligent level.

[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people.