Ayn Rand Quotes

There are no employees without employers.

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

Employment is a contract between an employer and an employee. Thus, laws prohibiting discriminatory pay are an infringement on private contracts.

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

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.

It is essential that the worker in industry should have the status of an individual and not a mere cog in a soulless machine.

Union busting has become an art form.

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

In a market economy, the right to seek employment is fundamental … the issue goes beyond economy. It’s an issue of human rights.

In China, the Communist Party’s suppression of free trade unions keeps cotton workers’ wages down, just as British law in the early 1800s saw to it that men and women who abandoned their ill-paid jobs and ran away could be jailed for breach of contract.

America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Union membership should not be a condition for employment, and workers should have the freedom to exercise their right to determine how their hard-earned money is spent.

T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.

Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.

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.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.

I respect unions, I think they have an important role to pay and I listen to them, we meet with them, and they raise valid points on a lot of issues like worker safety and so forth, but I also respect the right of individual workers to decide whether they want to pay that fee and whether they want to join a union.

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.

My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers.