Jan Schakowsky Quotes

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

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

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

Even if you're not a union member, you've likely benefited from the hard-fought advancements our unions spearheaded: Have you taken a sick day, received paid leave for medical reasons or vacation, or received overtime pay? Unions paved the way for all of these.

Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!

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

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.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

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

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

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

“Right to Work” is wrong for Kentucky. It’s just another word for union busting...

The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

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.

My job is to represent working people.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions.

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