Nikki Haley Quotes

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

Union busting has become an art form.

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

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

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

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

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

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.

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

The unions used to sell security. They can’t deliver any more.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

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.

The labor movement was a reaction to capitalism.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

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.

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

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 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.

We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the head men.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

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

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