Grover Cleveland Quotes

Union busting has become an art form.

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

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.

I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.

After one operator referred to the union as ‘a set of outlaws’, I wanted to take him by the seat of the breeches and nape of the neck and chuck him out the window.

to supplement the local government in protecting his property when he enters into a contest with his employees.

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

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.

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

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.

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

The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

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

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

The New Deal Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act which granted unrestricted sovereign power to the barons of union labor.

The labor movement was a reaction to capitalism.

I'm not anti-union.