#unions

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#country #exposing #fair #i #i think

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

— Greg Walden

#being #better #big #big enough #corporations

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

#came #conviction #courageous #dedicated #defense

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#bargaining #benefit #cannot #consent #employers

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

— Aeschylus

#beasts #female #masters #men #passion

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#because #crews #criminal #done #go

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. ↗

— Dick Morris

#against #break #civil #evenly #gay

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#another #between #competing #confederation #countries

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#between #collective #employers #governments #legislate