Bruce Rauner Quotes

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

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.

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 had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.

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.

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.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

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.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

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.

First fight. Then fiddle.

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

Conflict is always fun to play.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

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