- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unions Quotes
On organizing and risk: quotes about labor unions.
These quotes cover unions from more than one angle, including political spending rules and blunt disagreement over whether unions are needed in a given state. See related lines on the Rights quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bless
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- Nov 07, 2020
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be sure, political unions between European countries have often failed in the past, but usually only after relatively brief periods. Denmark and Iceland separated after 130 years; the unions between Spain and Portugal and between Sweden and Norway each lasted less than a century.
- Being Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
- Exposing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the unions. But very, very super-conservative Catholic, very proud immigrant community, very stoic.
- Employees
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
- Collective
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020