Paul LePage Quotes

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?

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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.

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.

Models need to be unionized.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

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 continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.

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.

Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

I respect unions, I think they have an important role to pay and I listen to them, we meet with them, and they raise valid points on a lot of issues like worker safety and so forth, but I also respect the right of individual workers to decide whether they want to pay that fee and whether they want to join a union.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.