#unions

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

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

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

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

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

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#dissolution #then #trade #trade unions #unions

The pot that had simmered for fifty years boiled over. Colliers and miners, furnacemen and tram-road labourers were flooding down the valley to the Chartists' rendezvous: men from Dowlais under the Guests, Cyfartha under the Crawshays, Nantyglo under Bailey and a thousand forges and bloomeries in the hills: men of the farming Welsh, the Staffordshire specialists and the labouring Irish were taking to arms. ↗

— Alexander Cordell

#revolt #trade-unions #wales #men

I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you. ↗

— Rob McKenna

#effectively #governor #i #including #job

The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#auto #bankruptcy #been #companies #court