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The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.


Linda Chavez


#claim #comes #condition #deck #dues

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.


Harvey Weinstein


#did #i #labor #like #lot

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.


Grover Norquist


#break #five #groups #hold #house

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.


Frances O'Grady


#god-given #god-given right #make #nothing #ourselves

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.


Frances O'Grady


#actually #changing #complacent #i #i think

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

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.


Hilda Solis


#historic #our #people #played #reminded

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.


Bob Hawke


#economic #economics #government #i #i think

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.


Andy Stern


#because #both #disappearing #economy #global






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