Jay Roach Quotes

Unions may also legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only available means to the justice owed to workers

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

Duty of the Catholic Worker to Join Organized Labor

Labor: a man coins himself into his labor,—turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power; and to protect that, to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government. There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and governments exist for that,—to protect and insure it to the laborer.

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

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

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

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

All the legislation ever secured for the ventilation or safety of mines, factory or workshop is the result of the efforts of organized labor?

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.

This trial is a fight between capital and labor, of which this is but a manifestation up here in the woods.

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.

Show me a country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country is which there is no liberty.

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

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.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to...I like the system which lets a man quit when he wants to and wish it might prevail everywhere.

I am glad to see a system of labor ... under which laborers can strike when they want to.

When labor is strong, America is strong.