Jason Kander Quotes

When labor is strong, America is strong.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

Stop demonizing American workers who don't belong to unions who are happy in their jobs.

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.

I am proud to stand with working families and honored to have AFGE's support.

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.

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.

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 future of Labor is the future of America.

Labor is marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

The labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we can do that and still be competitive on a global basis.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

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.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

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.