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Unions Quotes

I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

Plants Thought Remember Unions Naive

Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.

Chance Unions Little Employment Join

To be sure, political unions between European countries have often failed in the past, but usually only after relatively brief periods. Denmark and Iceland separated after 130 years; the unions between Spain and Portugal and between Sweden and Norway each lasted less than a century.

Past Political Unions Years Iceland

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

Money Support Unions Get Manpower

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

Political Know Unions Trade Number

Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.

Government Problems Say Unions

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Nicholas Kristof

Accountability Learn You True Unions

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

Harry Triguboff

Me Fighting Unions Never Years Beat

Teachers' unions don't act in the interest of most teachers.

Teachers Unions Act Interest Most

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

Finance Political Unions Bank Right

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

Today I Am Saying Trying Unions Get

By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

American America Pie Unions More

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

Good Me Good Times You Bad Unions

I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.

Think Problem Want Class Unions

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Class Unions Middle Before Were

If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.

Jose Angel Gurria

People Trying You New Labor Unions

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.

Place Labor Unions Turn Own Only

I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.

History You Look Back Know Unions

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Unions Need Because South Carolina

We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Labor Unions Civil Rights Movement

I made 'Super' for $3 million, and that was filmed in 24 days. And that $3 million dollars went to a lot of things other than what shows up on screen. Once you get done with the unions and everything else, that's just, like, the basic cost of what you can make a movie for.

You Done Unions Everything Up Cost

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

Unions Air Trade Then Dissolution

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

Positive Relationship Labor Unions

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

Go Unions Minimum Wage Up Contracts

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