Dominic Raab Quotes

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 would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

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

No society can tolerate strikes that endanger the general welfare, such as a strike that shuts down an entire industry. Nor can any government tolerate a strike aimed at its authority. But the “right to strike” is absolutely necessary to the cohesion, if not indeed to the survival, of the union; without it it cannot discharge its function.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

The number of men out on strike exceeds that of any other industrial contest in the history of our country.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

No better strike leader than John N. Mitchell has ever emerged in any time of industrial strife.

It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

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

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Labor unions must have conflict in order to justify their existence.

Neither the common law nor the Fourteenth Amendment confers the absolute right to strike.

Labor Unions are revolutionary and anarchistic and a menace to the entire social and industrial system of the United States.

A strike cannot be tolerated under any circumstances for it would be a stab at our armed might.

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.