Noah Smith Quotes

I am glad to see a system of labor ... under which laborers can strike when they want to.

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

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.

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.

I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.

I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.

It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons.

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

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

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

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.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

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

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

No society can tolerate strikes that endanger the general welfare, such as a strike that shuts down an entire industry. Nor can any government tolerate a strike aimed at its authority. But the “right to strike” is absolutely necessary to the cohesion, if not indeed to the survival, of the union; without it it cannot discharge its function.

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

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

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

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

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

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.