David Neeleman Quotes

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

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

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.

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

Unions and their supporters in Congress claim that when employees vote on whether to unionize, the elections are tainted by employer intimidation. They're wrong.

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

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

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

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.

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

Models need to be unionized.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

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

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