Unions Quotes

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Mitt Romney

Money, Power, Support

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Live

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Scott Walker

Best, Fire, Last

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers

Rights, Trade, Respected

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus

Men, Passion, Victory

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Peter Brimelow

Teacher, Means, Group

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
Annie Lennox

Job, Worry, Next

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
Chris Christie

Leadership, Politics, Health

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich

Time, Truth, Government

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper

Marriage, Law, Protect

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
Harry Bridges

Everything, Try, Meet

I certainly support civil unions.
Carly Fiorina

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
Tony Campolo

Life, Legal, Together

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
Tony Campolo

Government, Business, Legal

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair

Business, Strong, Win

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.
Andrew Cuomo

Respect, Reality, State

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
Lech Walesa

Free, Group, Rights

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
Lech Walesa

Life, Working, Impossible

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.
Harvey Weinstein

Work, Made, Tough

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
Shimon Peres

Trust, Government, Two

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.
Jim DeMint

Today, Saying, Trying

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
Arthur Scargill

Nothing, Giving, Action

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
James P. Hoffa

Country, Living, American

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
Craig Ferguson

Wedding, Gay, Woman

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
Tony Kushner

Human, Same, Societies

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.
Greg Walden

Power, Enough, Big

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.
Scott Walker

Money, Real, Line

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
David Schwimmer

America, Young, Story

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Barbara Castle

Women, Men, True

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
Grover Norquist

Through, Another, Rather

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