Kit Bond Quotes

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

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

There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

The ongoing internationalization of the economy is confronting the labor movement

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

Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.

We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.

It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and given the rights and protections they deserve. Still, we need to do more to protect all American workers.

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

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

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

Worker and worker protections, figuring out how someone can have a better shot in a global marketplace, has always been the stepchild of trade.

I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.