Ken Howard Quotes

I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

The labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

I'm pro Union.

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

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.

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.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

Models need to be unionized.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

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

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

Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

The players must be at the centre of their industry.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.