Arthur Scargill Quotes

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

I'm pro Union.

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

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

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

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

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

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

A divided labor movement hurts the prospects of union members and it makes me very angry.

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

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.

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

It is essential that there be organization of labor…. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

The weapon of political action. That is going to be the main fighting weapon of all labor, international as well as national, if we are going to do those things that we are in business to do as a labor union

Unquestionably unions and their leaders are not always wise and fair any more than any other human beings. There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation.

I'm not anti-union.

Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.

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.

Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.

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.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.