Quotes About Strike

An injunction the city had obtained against a sanitation strike in 1966 was still in effect, and could be wielded against the local.

a strike in the era of globalization must be vigorously supported by allies near and far and exceptionally well managed.

Billing was at Tower Hill, addressing the 12,000 police who had called a general strike ('Traffic Managing Itself' headlined The Times, noting that at least the reprehensible strikers had agreed to work in the event of an air raid)

Speed is vital. You got to strike fast. Fads have short lives, and you got to get what you can - like the case of the Pet Rock.

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Peace will come when it becomes irrelevant to strike out at people. When you see that it's striking out against your own genome.

as long as there are capitalists, these abuses of power will be perpetuated. It is precisely the state, the would-be benefactor, that has given to the companies that monopoly and those rights upon us which they possess today... has it not sent its soldiers against railwaymen on strike?

Introducing a voting threshold for strike action would save the country billions, unleashing productivity gains from rail infrastructure to administration.

Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park that if I was concerned about Americans' safety and the symbol of America's future I would think that those is Silicon Valley as the most vulnerable. That's where you would be attacking the future economy.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

I encourage young people to feel passionately about important issues including climate change. But to suggest that they should strike during school hours is grossly irresponsible.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

The three-and-a-half-week walkout "had little effect on Britain's decision to grant Ireland independence," wrote Bruce Nelson, but it did lead to the integration—if short-lived—of African Americans into the Chelsea Piers workforce, the experience of diaspora and oppression briefly uniting black and Irish dockworkers "who had long regarded each other with suspicion and even hatred.

With "not the slightest sign of an end to the strike," Roosevelt readied a second plan—the creation of a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate the causes of the strike and make recommendations for both executive and legislative action. Scrambling once again to find warrant for such intervention, he argued he was empowered by his constitutional duty to report to Congress on the state of the Union.

Lymond said, very softly, in English, 'This is part of a plan to escape. Pretend to strike me, and listen.' 'You stinking catamite,' said Jerott; and with all his considerable strength launched a blow at Lymond's face which was very genuine indeed.

You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands!

That's right!" agreed Majikthise. "You'll have a national Philosophers' strike on your hands!" The

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet. In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Lightning flashed off to the east. It struck somewhere out beyond the city, flickered for a moment, lit up the sky.

As a striker you need to take chances.

I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.