Workplace Relations Quotes

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

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

Industrial relations are like sexual relations. It's better between two consenting parties.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.

On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.

I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.

I'm not anti-union.

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

Capital and labor are just as harmonious as roast beef and a hungry stomach.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.

I have always liked to have face-to-face talks with my bosses.

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'