Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

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 unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

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.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

I believe in corporations. I believe in trade unions. Both have come to stay and are necessities in our present industrial system, But where, either one or the other, there develops corruption or mere brutal indifference to the rights of others … then the offender, whether union or corporation, must be fought.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

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.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

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

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

After contract negotiations and organizing, playing an active role in the political process is one of a union's most important functions. Gains won at the bargaining table or through sacrifice on the picketline can be wiped out by politicians on the state or federal level.

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

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.

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.