Keir Starmer Quotes

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

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

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

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

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions.

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

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

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.

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.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

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

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

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.

In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

We have tried voluntary codes and we have tried free markets, but they have not worked, so we need to try something else. Legislation is not a panacea for all the inequalities in the workplace, but it will go a long way towards stopping them. Effective employment legislation is needed

All the legislation ever secured for the ventilation or safety of mines, factory or workshop is the result of the efforts of organized labor?

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

The priority of work over capital places an obligation in justice upon employers to consider the welfare of the workers before the increase of profits.

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.

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.

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