Jen Lancaster Quotes

Union busting has become an art form.

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.

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

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.

I will use the power of the government of the United States within my control to prevent the labor unions ... from destroying the open shop.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

The labor movement was a reaction to capitalism.

Unions and their supporters in Congress claim that when employees vote on whether to unionize, the elections are tainted by employer intimidation. They're wrong.

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.

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.

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.

My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to be fully informed of all that goes on and unhesitatingly discharge any men connected with this movement. In this way, our peace will be secure for a long time, and it will be easily done if taken at the start.

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce.

Labor unions must have conflict in order to justify their existence.

Labor Unions are revolutionary and anarchistic and a menace to the entire social and industrial system of the United States.

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

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

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