Wage Disputes Quotes

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

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

I don't propose to let either the NAM [National Association of Manufacturers] or labor unions hand me a bill and say: "Take it or leave it.

As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.

Industrial wars due to the arrogance and the blindness of the labor unions are a much greater menace to the United States today than foreign wars.

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.

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

Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.

From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.

Firefighters don't go on strike.