Jim Ratcliffe Quotes

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

Unions may also legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only available means to the justice owed to workers

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.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions.

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

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

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Labor unions must have conflict in order to justify their existence.

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.

I will use the power of the government of the United States within my control to prevent the labor unions ... from destroying the open shop.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

When labor is strong, America is strong.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees

I work in the tech industry and my husband works in biotech. He's head of IP for a company listed on the NASDAQ. And we have a lot of discussions in tech and biotech about the role of unionization in our industries.

When you talk to people about their practical life, for example when they're at work, like the rail industry, the RMT members know better than anyone else how to run their industry.

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

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business.

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.