Jack Welch Quotes

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

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.

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

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.

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

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

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.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Unions may also legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only available means to the justice owed to workers

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

There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation

Modern trade unions understood that deciphering a balance sheet was more important than decoding Das Kapital.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Public unions are big money.

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.

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

I am a proud trade unionist.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.