Peter Morici Quotes

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

I shared, naturally, in that hatred of organized labor which has been the one political constant in my lifetime…. No alternative view of organized labor has ever come to us through the popular media. If labor leaders were not crooks like Jimmy Hoffa, they were in the pay of Moscow.

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

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

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

Labor unions are often brutal, they are often cruel, they are often unjust.... I don't care how many brutalities they are guilty of. I know that their cause is just. I meant that however unjust and cruel they sometimes are, their cause is just.

Some say politics means destruction to labor organizations, but the reverse is the fact.

The United Mine Workers and the CIO have paid cash on the barrel for every piece of legislation that we have gotten…

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

Political activity by unions is not wrong. It's their First Amendment right.

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

I've been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry's evolution. It's enabled the constant creative destruction that keeps Silicon Valley relevant and thriving in a rapidly changing world.

The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

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 lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Without union, our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they never can be maintained.

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

Republicans are always much more supportive of unions in Poland than they are of unions in the United States.