Albert Shanker Quotes

I'm pro Union.

Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

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.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

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.

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.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.

Republicans are always much more supportive of unions in Poland than they are of unions in the United States.

After contract negotiations and organizing, playing an active role in the political process is one of a union's most important functions. Gains won at the bargaining table or through sacrifice on the picketline can be wiped out by politicians on the state or federal level.

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be.