Dick Wolf Quotes

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

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.

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

Union busting has become an art form.

We have reached the point where we must advise the miners … to either continue working under these unjust and tyrannical conditions or counsel a strike.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

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.

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.

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

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.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

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

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

Strikes are a crime ... the law of jungles and primitive societies.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

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

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

No better strike leader than John N. Mitchell has ever emerged in any time of industrial strife.

to supplement the local government in protecting his property when he enters into a contest with his employees.

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

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.