Dick Wolf Quotes
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
Wolf, Dick. Interview by Stephen J. Abramson. The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, Television Academy Foundation, 20 Oct. 2003.
Norris was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives when the Taft-Hartley Act was debated. The pressure was intense. He told union leaders in his district:
Mitchell had warned that the strike was coming (see {607760}). The strike lasted 29 days and ended when the miners received a 10% wage increase. President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the dispute.
Bear was the classic icon of the wealthy, insensitive, powerful, prejudiced snob. He even made other capitalists somewhat sympathetic to the complaints about corporations. See {593878} and {593879}.
At the time, it did seem impossible that labor and capital would ever have harmonious relations. But the notion that slavery would solve the problem is as preposterous as anything ever entered into the American political dialogue. But there were many in the South, and some in the North, who actually believed it. Even 150 years later, while labor and capital relations were much better than pre Civil War, they still could not be described as “harmonious” or “friendly”.
At the time, most company owners and managers refused to bargain collectively with employee elected organizations. Hoover was then an exceptionally modern business person who realized the importance of good working relations between management and labor and advocated collective bargaining. However, as he got deeper into partisan politics, he backed off urging this. Nationally, in the 1960s collective bargaining had become an instrument of basic sound management, but more and more managements returned to simply refusing to bargain with employee organizations and instead strengthened their managers and supervisors and adopted (by choice and by government regulation) more and more modern, healthy, safe, efficient and attractive working conditions and policies. By the 21st century, labor unions and employee organizations had lost their attractiveness while managers were more attentive to workers and there were very few private companies engaged in collective bargaining.
This is one of the classic labor-management problems. It can be solved by legislating minimum wages, having very strong labor unions, that can pressure all the employers of an industry at once, or to have industrial unions as they do in Germany.
At the time, industrialists could not even conceive of the notion of negotiating over wages must less collective bargaining.
This opinion was written very early in his career when he was an Ohio Judge in Cincinnati.
Virtually every advance for the working class in England (and the other countries including America) was labeled “socialism” by the conservative economic factions of the time. However, socialists were strong advocates of all these economic reforms and even in the 19th century their impact was recognized.
Richard Anthony Wolf is an American television producer, best known as the creator and executive producer of the Law & Order franchise. Since 1990, the franchise has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs. He is also the creator and executive producer of the Chicago franchise, which, since 2012, has included four Chicago-based dramas: police, courtroom, fire, and medical. Wolf has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
