Ted Wheeler Quotes

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

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.

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

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

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

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

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

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 denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce.

The New Deal Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act which granted unrestricted sovereign power to the barons of union labor.

The decline of the trade union is to some extent inevitable and irreversible.

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.

I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.

I'm pro Union.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

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

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

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.