#unions

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

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#going #i #stop #unions #up

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#carolina #need #south #south carolina #unions

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#civil #definition #difficulty #i #i believe

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#american #american economy #country #devour #economy

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

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#come #corruption #country #employee #government

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ↗

— Max Eastman

#choice #emotion #mind #poetic #priest