Caroline Douglas-Home Quotes

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.

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.

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

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

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.

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

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

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.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

We have tried voluntary codes and we have tried free markets, but they have not worked, so we need to try something else. Legislation is not a panacea for all the inequalities in the workplace, but it will go a long way towards stopping them. Effective employment legislation is needed

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

England is… a country infested with people who love to tell us what to do, but who very rarely seem to know what’s going on.

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

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

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.