Richard Grimes 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.

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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.

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

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.

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

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

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

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.

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.

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

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

Rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.