#unions

Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#called #fascist #me #more #mostly

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

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#attorney #former #hey #i #lot

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result. ↗

— Michael Moore

#because #been #crux #eliminating #else

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

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#because #believe #cut #deal #federal

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#both #enough #feel #government #i

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.' ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#courts #doing #establish #ethic #god

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#buy #favored #forced #join #members

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