Sarah Lacy Quotes

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

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.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

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?

Union busting has become an art form.

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

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

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

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

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

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

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

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

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

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy.

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

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce.

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

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

I will never recognize the union, never, never!

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