Unions Quotes - Page 24

It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those people - those workers. I'm glad that the service industry unionized.

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

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.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

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