Allison Grimes Quotes

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

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

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

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

My heart lies with the workers.

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.

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.

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

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

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

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

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

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.

When labor is strong, America is strong.

The labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

Labor: a man coins himself into his labor,—turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power; and to protect that, to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government. There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and governments exist for that,—to protect and insure it to the laborer.

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

Labor unions have already inflicted an evil on this country which they could never entirely repair.

The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.

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

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.