Donald Sassoon Quotes

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

The trade union, which originated under the European system, destroys liberty.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

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.

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.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

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

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

I will use the power of the government of the United States within my control to prevent the labor unions ... from destroying the open shop.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

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

Unquestionably unions and their leaders are not always wise and fair any more than any other human beings. 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.

… employers, many of whom would like to be fair, are in a competitive business and they cannot afford to meet the demands of the union unless everyone in their line of business is forced to do so too

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

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.

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

Public unions are big money.

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