Quotes About Unions

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

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

Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.

I will strengthen our unions and our middle-class families so that no longer will they be pushed around by employers but will finally have a seat at the table.

There's no representation. That's why the NBA Players Association was formed, players' unions were formed. That's why those unions were formed - to have representation before you make rules for me that I have to abide by. How can I participate and how can it be fair if there's no representation?

You look at right-to-work states: a lot of car companies are relocating down to the South so they don't have to deal with the unions or the legacy cost or any of those things, and that's what manufacturing's done.

Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want.

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

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

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.'

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.

There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.

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

Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.

Political activity by unions is not wrong. It's their First Amendment right.

Unions and their supporters in Congress claim that when employees vote on whether to unionize, the elections are tainted by employer intimidation. They're wrong.

Republicans are consistently right-to-work and they want to eliminate unions or destroy the union way of life.