Bette Davis Quotes

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

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.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

The number of men out on strike exceeds that of any other industrial contest in the history of our country.

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

No better strike leader than John N. Mitchell has ever emerged in any time of industrial strife.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

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

No matter what the motive of the employer, any strike aimed at him is in physical fact a strike against ourselves and our country. No matter if he claims or seems to be in non-essential production, no strike is proper, for strikes are infectious and damaging to morale.

Not a penny off the pay. Not a minute on the day.

The only way a workingman can get anything is by collective bargaining, and by saying "If you don't give us a raise, not only will I quit but we will all quit and tie up your business

No strike has ever been lost.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

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

It is not right for public officials to bring scabs and gunmen into any state. I am directly opposed to it myself, but if it is a question of strike or you go into slavery, then I say strike until the last one of us drop into our graves.

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

No strike is a loss or failure to the workers, even if the point sought is not gained for the time being. If naught else they teach the capitalists that they are expensive luxuries.