Sharan Burrow Quotes

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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.

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

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

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

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.

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

Models need to be unionized.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

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

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.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

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.

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

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.

Show me a country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country is which there is no liberty.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.

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.

Unions are something wrestlers have been talking about for many years. We would probably wish there was a union, but you have to understand wrestling is not a regulated sport.

T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.

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