Ron Jaworski Quotes

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

The number of men out on strike exceeds that of any other industrial contest in the history of our country.

We have reached the point where we must advise the miners … to either continue working under these unjust and tyrannical conditions or counsel a strike.

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.

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

Public unions are big money.

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

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

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

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

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

Not a penny off the pay. Not a minute on the day.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

No strike is a loss or failure to the workers, even if the point sought is not gained for the time being. If naught else they teach the capitalists that they are expensive luxuries.

I am glad to see a system of labor ... under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Look at your [labor] strikes. They are proof that the men are desperate.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

Modern trade unions understood that deciphering a balance sheet was more important than decoding Das Kapital.

Labor unions have already inflicted an evil on this country which they could never entirely repair.