Jacques Delors Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.

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.

Do not worry about the side agreements on labor. They are too full of loopholes to pose any threat.

… employers, many of whom would like to be fair, are in a competitive business and they cannot afford to meet the demands of the union unless everyone in their line of business is forced to do so too

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

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country's DNA.

It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons.

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

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

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.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.