Dagen McDowell Quotes

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

The decline of the trade union is to some extent inevitable and irreversible.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

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.

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.

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

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.

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

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

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.

Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

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.

When union membership goes down, so do wages.

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.

Public unions are big money.

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.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

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