Ted Kennedy Quotes

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

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

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

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.

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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

Republicans are always much more supportive of unions in Poland than they are of unions in the United States.

After contract negotiations and organizing, playing an active role in the political process is one of a union's most important functions. Gains won at the bargaining table or through sacrifice on the picketline can be wiped out by politicians on the state or federal level.

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

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.

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

Duty of the Catholic Worker to Join Organized Labor

The decline of the trade union is to some extent inevitable and irreversible.

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore.

Workers' rights are under attack across the country.

T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.

Whenever the Republicans have an opportunity, they've tried to make New Mexico into a right-to-work state, and so I've been on the front lines fighting that for a long time.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.