Scott Coker Quotes

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

I'm pro Union.

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.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

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

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

The only way a workingman can get anything is by collective bargaining, and by saying "If you don't give us a raise, not only will I quit but we will all quit and tie up your business

The methods by which a trade union can alone act are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

I'm not anti-union.

My dad was in a union.

In my experience, union leaders are respected by their members.

There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

I am a proud trade unionist.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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.

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.