Bruce Rauner Quotes

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

I'm pro Union.

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.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

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

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

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

The history of all countries shows that, by its own efforts, the working class can develop only a trade-union consciousness—that is, the realization of the need of getting together in unions in order to fight employers and to demand from the government the passing of laws necessary for the workers.

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

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.

I am a proud trade unionist.

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

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.

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

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

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

After contract negotiations and organizing, playing an active role in the political process is one of a union's most important functions. Gains won at the bargaining table or through sacrifice on the picketline can be wiped out by politicians on the state or federal level.