Will Rogers Quotes

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.

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

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

Trade unionism means the enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

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.

Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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.

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

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

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Labor has no quarrel with capital, as such. It is merely the possessors of capital who refuse to accord to labor the recognition, the right, the justice which is the laborers' due, with whom we contend.

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

After contract negotiations and organizing, playing an active role in the political process is one of a union's most important functions. Gains won at the bargaining table or through sacrifice on the picketline can be wiped out by politicians on the state or federal level.

The trade union, which originated under the European system, destroys liberty.

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

The only way a workingman can get anything is by collective bargaining, and by saying "If you don't give us a raise, not only will I quit but we will all quit and tie up your business

What labor is demanding all over the world today is not a few material things like more dollars and fewer hours of work, but the right to a voice in the conduct of industry.

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

The history of all countries shows that, by its own efforts, the working class can develop only a trade-union consciousness—that is, the realization of the need of getting together in unions in order to fight employers and to demand from the government the passing of laws necessary for the workers.