Eugene Scalia Quotes

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

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

Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.

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

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

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

Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

I will continue to do all that I can to ensure and enhance worker protections, including the right to bargain collectively.

Public unions are big money.

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

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.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

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

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

There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!

I'll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best.

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.