Kate Flannery Quotes

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

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

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

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

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

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.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

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 an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I am a proud trade unionist.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

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.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

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

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

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.

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.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.