Wage Negotiations Quotes

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

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

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

Labor Unions are revolutionary and anarchistic and a menace to the entire social and industrial system of the United States.

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

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

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.

Modern trade unions understood that deciphering a balance sheet was more important than decoding Das Kapital.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

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

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

… employers, many of whom would like to be fair, are in a competitive business and they cannot afford to meet the demands of the union unless everyone in their line of business is forced to do so too

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

Unions may also legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only available means to the justice owed to workers

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

I will use the power of the government of the United States within my control to prevent the labor unions ... from destroying the open shop.

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons.

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

There are no employees without employers.