William Green Quotes

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

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

Modern trade unions understood that deciphering a balance sheet was more important than decoding Das Kapital.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

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

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.

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.

I am a proud trade unionist.

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.

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

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

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

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 remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

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