Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes

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

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

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.

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

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.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

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.

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

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

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.

The most fervid demand, however, of all the workers on strike was for a shorter day … 10½ hours instead or 13 hours as formerly, or even 14 and 16 reckoning the time of cleaning machinery.

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.

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've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.

The right to strike is one of the most important safeguards working people have in this country. It's a weapon of last resort that has served throughout history as a bargaining tool which allows unions to push for recognition of ordinary workers' rights to be paid fairly and treated with dignity.

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

We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.

I will strengthen our unions and our middle-class families so that no longer will they be pushed around by employers but will finally have a seat at the table.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.