Richard Ojeda Quotes

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

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

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

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

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

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

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

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

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.

By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

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

The labor movement has failed to capture the support of the public at large.

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

The trade union, which originated under the European system, destroys liberty.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

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

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

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

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

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

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

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