Sean Doolittle Quotes

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.

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

All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

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

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

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

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.

We need to give workers more control over their training, health care, and their pensions.

They only ask for a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.

We need unions to make sure that working people have a legitimate and consistent voice.

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

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

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

The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination and ensured that Britain is one of the safest places in the world in which to go to work.

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions.

All of these 'protections' were put into place to provide public school teachers with the kind of job security and cushy work rules that United Auto Workers have enjoyed.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

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

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

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.