Diego Simeone Quotes

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

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

Strikers get periods like this, periods when you do everything right and others when you can't do anything properly.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

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.

No labor strike will last more than 15 minutes.

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

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

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

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.

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

Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves.

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 labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

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.

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

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

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.

Putting roadblocks in the way of legitimate strike action only increases the likelihood of more wildcat strikes, which in turn will make it that much harder for employers to address legitimate grievances, given that they'll lose the ability to negotiate with recognised union leaders.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.

Regardless of the degree of class consciousness of their members, the trade unions are, by their very nature, driven on to the revolutionary goal.

No strike is a loss or failure to the workers, even if the point sought is not gained for the time being. If naught else they teach the capitalists that they are expensive luxuries.

I am glad to see a system of labor ... under which laborers can strike when they want to.