Gerardo Machado y Morales Quotes

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

The number of men out on strike exceeds that of any other industrial contest in the history of our country.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce.

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

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

No matter what the motive of the employer, any strike aimed at him is in physical fact a strike against ourselves and our country. No matter if he claims or seems to be in non-essential production, no strike is proper, for strikes are infectious and damaging to morale.

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

A strike cannot be tolerated under any circumstances for it would be a stab at our armed might.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

Strikes are a crime ... the law of jungles and primitive societies.

We have reached the point where we must advise the miners … to either continue working under these unjust and tyrannical conditions or counsel a strike.

Look at your [labor] strikes. They are proof that the men are desperate.

In the last years no political strike has taken place in Italy… This is a country where the unions have signed a wage truce…this is a surprising and absurd feature of the present economic situation…. On the other side, a pack of political and economic speculators are taking advantage of the situation.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

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

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.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

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.

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

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

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

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.