Joe Wurzelbacher Quotes

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.

I will absolutely be supporting the Republican platform and voting for Mr. Trump.

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

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.

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

If you have a job in your department that can't be done by a Democrat, then abolish the job.

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters [employers] and their workmen, its counselors [members of the legislature] are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

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

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions.