Union Leader Quotes

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

Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.

Mitchell is only a common coal miner who has worked with his hands for 15 years, and is now a labor agitator. Any negotiations with him would unduly recognize a mere rabble-rouser..

I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

The Lincoln of Labor

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.