#unions

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

#get #meet #minute #now #opposition

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

#benefits #billion #bipartisan #did #dollars

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#being #being content #content #declarations #established

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

— Scott Walker

#bottom line #hands #line #money #national

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. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#came #german #i #know #number

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them. ↗

— Harold Ford

#benefits #civil #couples #decisions #economic

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

#exchanging #foolish #give #laborers #live

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that ‘they’ will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that ‘they’ would never allow it. Who were ‘they’? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently ‘they’ were omnipotent. ↗

— George Orwell

#labour #servility #trade-unions #wage-labour #working-class