Andy Stern Quotes

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

Union busting has become an art form.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce.

Strikes are a crime ... the law of jungles and primitive societies.

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

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.

The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

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.

Labor organizations are like other organizations, like organizations of capitalists; sometimes they act very well and sometimes they act badly. We should consistently favor them when they act well, and as fearlessly oppose them when they act badly.

The strongest form of fight against the capitalist class is the strike. Strikes are necessary, ever again, against the capitalists’ tendency to increase their profits by lowering wages and increase the hours or the intensity of work.

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

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

No strike has ever been lost.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

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

We need unions to make sure that working people have a legitimate and consistent voice.

Industrial wars due to the arrogance and the blindness of the labor unions are a much greater menace to the United States today than foreign wars.

After one operator referred to the union as ‘a set of outlaws’, I wanted to take him by the seat of the breeches and nape of the neck and chuck him out the window.

“Right to Work” is wrong for Kentucky. It’s just another word for union busting...

I'm not anti-union.