Labour Dispute Quotes

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

to supplement the local government in protecting his property when he enters into a contest with his employees.

It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners.

No better strike leader than John N. Mitchell has ever emerged in any time of industrial strife.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

Marikana is a huge wake-up call.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.