Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

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.

Industrial relations are like sexual relations. It's better between two consenting parties.

Capital and labor are just as harmonious as roast beef and a hungry stomach.

It is essential that there be organization of labor…. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees

I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

Let our government …make one more effort to secure freely from organizations of employees and employers alike, co-operation in keeping our money sound and our prices stable.

After one operator referred to the union as ‘a set of outlaws’, I wanted to take him by the seat of the breeches and nape of the neck and chuck him out the window.

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

Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

At the end of the day, you want to do what's best for your organization, present and future.