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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)

John F. Kennedy

[The American Federation of Government Employees, one of the other unions suing DHS, said the department also did not consult them in making the proposed adjustments.] The first time around, DHS and [the Office of Personnel Management] decided not to listen to what we had to say, ... You think they would have learned their lesson, but I guess not.

John Gage

These unions are making a concerted effort to organize. It's the only sector of the union movement that's really growing. The hospitality industry is really dependent on undocumented workers.

Robert Korstad

This announcement is not in response to the union's press conference. This is an announcement we'd been working on for a number of months.

Arlene Murray

It is Margaret Thatcher's fault, ... Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given short shrift, as short as the trade unions: nothing including old-fashioned industry was to obstruct economic progress. Making things was slow. There were quicker ways to get rich...

Stephen Bayley

We are waiting for the unions to talk to us directly. We are then going to tell them what has been decided and what can be done further to alleviate the situation.

Charlotte Mokoena

People in the workforce have benefited from unions.

John Wilkins

The union's refusal to put our offer out for a vote blocks better benefits for our people and robs them of their right to vote on their future.

Gina Ellrich

The Alliance at IBM is still an active campaign, but we've not been able to build enough support to get to the point to have a vote, ... But the pension changes there, or the cutbacks and pension changes just announced at Hewlett Packard show the need for unions. They're unilateral, with no one in position to speak for the employees being affected.

Marcus Courtney

Generally speaking, the Latino population mushroomed here following NAFTA and the fact that some of the poultry industry employers saw an opportunity to recruit Latino workers to diffuse the effect of African-American workers and their efforts to organize unions.

Bill Chandler

This isn't really anything new. The unions have tried to organize Wal-Mart associates through the Internet for more than five years . . . with no success. . . . We might be concerned if this group was offering solutions to some of the issues working people face each day, but that is not the case.

Mona Williams

If the unions ask for more than British Airways are offering, then there won't be much sympathy. British Airways has had to cut costs, and the unions know that.

Stephen Furlong

A lot of things that you want, companies want. You want a productive employee, a trained employee. You want to retain employees. Unions want that too.

Rock Regan

The New Haven Police union's issue is what is theirs and what is ours. Our overall goal is the same -- to keep people safe -- but there is a discrepancy over jurisdiction. You can't make steadfast rules because crime does not follow rules.

Chris Morganti

Matt is a winner, a vocal leader and a great leader by example. He also typifies what Union's student-athletes are all about. He is a Union Scholar, a captain and starter for our team, and also a standout swimmer for Coach Scott Felix.

Jeff Guinn

If all you want out of work is to provide means for your existence, that's fine. But unions are here to obtain some legal norms that make work more respectable.

Bernard Thibault

In that sense, the unions are losing quite a bit of their power.

Richard Gritta

This is really a moral victory for the banking industry, because we believe the credit unions were breaking the law and the Supreme Court affirmed that.

Janet Eissenstat

It prevents credit unions from extending their services to small employee groups.

Stephen Brobeck

We are actively at the bargaining table, and we already have agreements with one-third of our work force, and the terms are reasonable and fair. Obviously we're going to have similar agreements with ... these other unions.

Marjorie Anders

The advantage that the other unions have is that they still have a contract, ... From that perspective, the other unions are in a stronger position.

Lowell Peterson

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

Harry Bridges

This decision validates [the National Treasury Employees Union's] arguments that this administration, DHS and [the Office of Personnel Management] far overstepped the boundaries and abused the discretion given to them by Congress.

Colleen Kelley

Northwest can survive if they have to go into bankruptcy, ... These labor unions have to take it upside the head. Their next job will be at the Wal-Mart.

Michael Boyd

We want to let people know that both police unions have been without a contract for 15 months.

Tim King

These labor unions are very apprehensive on the question of Europe.

Guy Groux

They're not people who decide to join unions. They don't feel they need them.

Leo Troy

This campaign should end the myth that high-tech workers in the new economy do not want to seek representation on the job and that unions are irrelevant in the 21 st century.

Marcus Courtney

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

Guido Mantega

Not one piece of testimony on behalf of this measure has been able to demonstrate how amending the Virginia Constitution to prohibit marriage equality for same-sex couples, civil unions and other marriage look-alikes would somehow strengthen or protect heterosexual marriage.

Dyana Mason

We continue to work with all of our unions in hopes of reaching a consensual agreement before the end of the year.

Lindsey Williams

Many in the unions have demonstrated a level of arrogance and even greed.

Lewis Uhler

A bill that would allow civil unions is a bill that allows same-sex marriage.

Chuck Darrell

Pro-labor elected officials, who authorized this political payback program, will also benefit from the union's monopoly in years to come.

Ceo Bryan Bedford

We did that based on how much they need to accomplish in less than two months with their other labor groups. This strike stretches out the likely time frame with the others unions at least a bit.

Philip Baggaley

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

Michael Wasserman

Public sentiment is very negative on unions right now. Now is a good time to stand together. If we don't, it will be worse in 2008 or 2010.

Matthew Hart

Our unions do a large amount of organizing in parts of the economy that historically and recently are places where people of color and immigrant workers have found jobs. Some of them are entry-level jobs. Throughout history immigrants have found work as janitors, and our unions have helped them raise families, send their kids to college, and that's been the American dream.

Andy Stern

If learners had started their preparation in time, there is still enough time for the exam. All we ask them (the pupils) to do is calm down and use the little time left to prepare for the exam. We call on our stakeholders - the parents and unions - to support these learners.

Loyiso Pulumani

Why did they wait several months to respond to attacks from unions? ... They made bad political decisions all the way through.

Allan Hoffenblum

Our message is that unions are adapting to a borderless world.

Philip Jennings

With the assault on labor right now, it was important for us to be out with all the unions.

Bob Rose

We don't believe a strike is in the best interests of our customers, employees and the hundreds of communities we serve each day. We believe a strike by our unions would be illegal under bankruptcy law and the Railway Labor Act.

Bill Mellon

There has been a decline in civic participation in general. This began in the 1970s for a variety of reasons and can be seen in lower memberships in labor unions, bowling leagues and organizations like the American Legion.

Lee Bernstein

It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Yes, there are less expensive plans, but they don't offer comparable coverage to the union's plan.

Deborah Chernoff

Well it is unusual to have such a low deductible and I know that one way you can save enormous amounts on premiums is to raise it to a more reasonable level. That is totally within the union's control. And so far that's not something they have wanted to look at.

Jeff Friedman

Up until the 1980s, most major newspapers, including The [Los Angeles] Times, had a regular labor reporter. Today, few papers, The Times among them, have even one reporter exclusively assigned to cover labor. ...The paper should have several reporters covering labor unions and workplace issues full time.

Peter Dreier

We need the unions to step up, ... If we don't get to that deal in the next 14 to 20 days, we'll be back on the 21st day to address the issue, and it will be in further cuts.

Kwame Kilpatrick

We recommend that consumers shift their funds from traditional savings to CDs and from banks to credit unions. If everyone did so they would earn about $40 billion more in interest annually. That's an average of about $400 per household.

Stephen Brobeck

We have seen that the unions are very fragmented now. We just don't feel like (labor's threatened campaign)... is anything we need to be concerned about.

Christi Gallagher

This is not a paradigm shift. This doesn't say anything about the swing in power between management and labor. This is a circumstance that pertains to the nature of negotiations between Northwest and one of its unions. It doesn't indicate a pattern or precedent that is likely to continue with other unions.

Douglas M. Steenland

[Then again, Christianity seems to have done quite well by mixing worship and commerce.] Religion is like yeast in dough, ... It's in every part of life, so for it to show up everywhere is only natural - in commerce, politics, sports, labor unions and so on and so forth.

Michael Novak

I think it's possible this whole debate started with the Change To Win unions when they left and caused the AFL-CIO to discuss what to do. But it's not just about numbers. It was about coming up with a new strategy. You have some people saying it's silly to leave any union out and you need to build the labor movement one city at a time.

Robert Bruno

These were contested issues, but they agreed to the union's interpretation.

Arnavaz Mistry

I know the IGDA describes itself as 'union neutral,' ... but I don't think enabling conversation is necessarily a stand in favor of unions, is it? I mean, the employees still have to make a choice as to whether they want to organize or not. We're not asking for an endorsement. There's just so much we can do without partners to help facilitate the conversation.

Marcus Courtney

North Carolina bank customers saved close to $60 million due to banks being in competition with credit unions. Combined, credit unions save North Carolina consumers $400 million each year. In Nash County, the impact totals an estimated $3.3 million each year.

Jeff Hardin

We think that this is an important moment in history and a terrific opportunity to act globally. They are global companies and we need to be global unions.

Stephen Lerner

This tournament will provide a new level of competition for aspiring elite players in the regions and will expand the depth of the player bases in both unions.

Mark Egan

We'll see how tough they can be in negotiating with the unions. They recognize now that the contract they signed last year was not very intelligent.

Ferdinand Dudenhöffer

Today's arrests are further evidence of the FBI's strategy. We are targeting the leadership of the families, severing their ties to sources of income, and neutralizing their efforts to infiltrate legitimate businesses, markets, and unions.

Kevin Donovan

They don't want to have disputes with the unions. Porsche's only interest is having control over Volkswagen.

Jens Schattner

When you look at who is funding this (campaign), it's no great surprise. That coalition (of labor unions and environmentalists) has worked together in the past.

Bob Mcadam

The Burke Administration continues to dodge going public with news of the City's newest arrival - a $4.8 million dollar 'structural deficit' - while, at the same time, using that bad news to its advantage in wage negotiations with police and fire unions.

Kevin Burke

This report is simply a listing of all stores we expect to open over the next 12 to 14 months, and many are already under construction. Since the unions oppose us wherever we locate our stores, this new stolen document doesn't seem to provide them any advantage.

Marty Heires

He's going at the throat of unions, which is the heart of the Democratic Party. If they can reduce the role of unions, that would be a dream come true for Republicans.

Craig Williams

If it happens, unions will refuse to fly, products will not be transferred, and we would see the global economy start to fall apart like a house of cards.

Laurie Garrett

Gay marriage is already illegal. The ban would sort of double-ban gay marriage. But beyond that, it would prevent Wisconsin from ever having civil unions. It would jeopardize public and private employers from offering domestic partner benefits. I think people are going to ask the question, is this the role of government?

Mike Tate

Unions have been collecting money from an individual worker and then sending it over to the NDP. Why has this premier, the leader of the NDP, allowed his own party to break the law?

Stuart Murray

We have attempted many times to organize Wal-Mart employees into unions, ... And every time the employees organize, they just close the store. So instead, we are taking the information to the public. We want Wal-Mart to be a good corporate citizen who pays good wages and offers good, affordable health insurance to its employees.

Bill Roberts

There's a possibility of a joint San Francisco-Oakland strike. We hope it doesn't happen, but that is a possibility. Both unions would be stronger if we go on strike together.

Ben Visnick

Bankers face a wide spectrum of businesses that are fighting for these deposits. Other banks, credit unions, brokerage firms, mutual fund companies and Internet banks are all looking to capture the same depositor dollars.

John Ziegelbauer

If the unions and their members are able to commit to extensive across-the-board labor reform, there may be an opportunity to retain some wide body airframe maintenance capacity in-house.

Rob Fyfe

The decision by the unions is unfortunate, but it clearly underlines the need for a level playing field. This affirms the need for a ban on smoking in all public places.

Maureen Moore

We thought we were doing what was in the best interest of the public, but we [couldn't] spend a million dollars on four-color mailers, [like the unions].

Walter Ekard

We want to work with the unions. We want to give them a reasonable increase in wages.

Richard Riordan

If we don't have ratification by all three unions at that time, we are left with no choice but to file bankruptcy. It's a deadline the union leadership has been aware of for quite some time.

Bruce Hicks

Used to be big with the unions.

Andre Benjamin

We have a history of working well with team members and the unions. We're a service business and when you're a service business, you need to treat your team members well.

Kathy Shepard

While we are running some 7-8 percent ahead of last year both in tonnage and revenue, we feel we could be much stronger without the union's activities. They've had very limited success with (organizing) our employees. So now they are trying to intimidate our customers.

Ira Rosenfeld

Our fund-raising has gone better than we expected, ... But the unions are still going to outspend us more than two-to-one.

Marty Wilson

I think they're going in a wonderful direction and it's up. There's lots of learning going on, lots of new technology, and we have a very good working agreement with our unions, teachers and CUPE unions. We all get along very well.

Pat Dahlquist

Today we begin to build a global union in very specific terms. In a global economy with global employers it seems rather obvious that we need global unions.

Andrew Stern

The cries of 'Who is next?' will clearly go up after this deal, but we tend to think that this (AT&T-BellSouth) was one of the most logical of the remaining unions.

Simon Flannery

The world has changed. We can help shape the global economy, but ... the strength of unions is [not] going to reverse globalization.

Andy Stern

The outpouring of support from other unions and from local and state officials has been overwhelming. Sikorsky Teamsters know that they are not alone in this difficult fight, and we are standing strong.

Rocco J. Calo

Certainly, the data collection needs to be examined. This is absolutely a pro-union effort, supported by union leaders and members of Congress and state legislatures with ties to unions.

Kelly Hobbs

Unions are upset that this happened. I know [the Ramada] has received a lot of letters of support to the general manager asking them to hire back the workers.

Rita Leckie

You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ... and credit unions are known for being friendlier.

Connie Anderson

The court says ministers must differentiate — same-sex holy unions and marriage for everyone else. Janie's conduct is challenging that.

Timothy Cahn

As union membership for nurses unions grows, so does our ability to speak out.

Cheryl Johnson

The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very deep jeopardy.

Fred Allvine

People don't leave the unions, the jobs leave the people.

Jack Shea

We reject the Wal-Mart way and, at Chicago, UNI will be imagining a better future for working people everywhere. We will work with the UFCW and those unions already established in Wal-Mart in Europe and elsewhere to stop a damaging race to the bottom.

Philip Jennings

The question is: Are bigger unions, better unions?

Gary Chaison

Unions are asking for more, but we are still a long way from excessive demands. The wage restraint continues.

Dirk Schumacher

It's just a step-up in terms of the pressure on the unions and it's consistent with what they've talked about, pushing to double savings. It's pretty much in line with the strategy that Dixon's outlined.

David Maywald

They can get so much more productivity without a third party acting as an intermediary. The unions will probably get the right to hold a vote, but I think there's a good chance Delta will keep the unions out. Last time there was a vote by mechanics, to my surprise it was overwhelmingly voted down.

Ray Neidl

Leading constitutional law scholars have come out and said that what the president is supporting ... would indeed strike at the heart of any state's ability to pass domestic partnership benefits [and] civil unions.

Cheryl Jacques

A CAT pass is not, and will not, be an option because the school bus drivers are union members. The unions run the schools, and this will not change.

Greg Forbes

This is tremendous news for Otago. James made a big impact on the international scene this year and I believe other unions had shown strong interest in him. We are delighted that he has decided to stay with us.

Russell Gray

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Jim Bruene

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations.

Dr. Thomas Graham

It would be difficult to enforce because there's a lot of gray areas in relation to people's disposition to supporting unions or not, ... Let's say such a law is enacted. No. 1, how could you really prove whether someone is a salt or not? How could you ensure the company is not unfairly discriminating against people because of their views?

Kent Wong

Obviously I'm putting out information that's not very flattering. The average person today, including the average union member, doesn't have any idea how unions operate and what the realities are. Everybody knows what unions are good at, but not what they're bad at.

Richard Berman

What really matters is whether the other unions at Northwest will support us. And that remains to be seen. At this stage of the game it's pretty standard for everyone to remain silent and see if a strike occurs.

Steve Macfarlane

The recovery plan does foresee a return to profitability and some upsides for the employees through profit sharing and stock options. What the unions asked was, 'What if the company becomes wildly profitable, beyond any projection.' We said that's a legitimate issue. That [return to investment grade debt] would signify things are very different than they are today, performing well above plan.

Bruce Hicks

[The Transport and General Union (T&G) launched the employment tribunal case on behalf of about 5,000 workers.] Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting, ... This proves that workers must become priority creditors, and administrators should consult with unions before laying anyone off.

Adrian Ross

We're truly honored to join CUNA Strategic Services' program as their exclusive security compliance assessment provider. Our comprehensive assessments make it easy for credit unions to stay ahead of dynamic security threats and continually changing regulatory demands. We're eager to work with credit unions to alleviate their compliance burden.

Pete Stewart

The problem that the unions have is that, if in any way they are seen to be threatening the Olympic Games, they will threaten the central myth about new London.

Tony Travers

My feeling is that the US domestic support proposal will have a comparable effect to the European Union's 2003 reform of its Common Agricultural Policy.

Jim Sutton

Both parties want good unions and will push for stronger unions.

Jim Evans

Civil unions performed in other states are entitled to full faith and credit in Connecticut, and cannot be repeated here. Out-of-state same-sex marriages have no legal force and effect here.

Richard Blumenthal

You wonder how long the unions will take it.

Paul Trainor

One of the most important factors in collective bargaining is establishing that the employer can afford the union's demands. The hotel industry will have a hard time making a case that it can't.

Bob Bruno

The ultimate aim is to assist the progress of the unions to the Tier 1 level.

Mark Egan

We're not mad at anybody, but we believe that we have to build a labor movement that focuses on organizing unorganized workers who want to be unions, on partnering with employers who want to work with us and on integrating immigrants into our society.

John Wilhelm

To give L&I some credit, I think they were initially bowing to heavy political pressure from the unions but they finally landed back on common sense.

Jim Hazen

By 2010, wind energy alone will save enough greenhouse gas emissions to meet one third of the European Union's Kyoto obligations.

Christian Kjaer

He's made an extraordinary effort to move beyond last year's conflict with the city's unions. He's reached out to the Greater Boston Labor Council, trying to mend fences, and last night's vote reflects that. The vote was unanimous.

Rich Rogers

Credit card companies, credit unions, many retailers, as well as the American people, have lobbied for bankruptcy reform for years.

Jim Donahue

The main question mark is how Porsche deals with the unions.

Jens Schattner

Once this law takes effect, gay and lesbian couples legally partnered anywhere in the world will have domestic partnerships, civil unions, or marriages recognized automatically.

Rand Hoch

If two individuals love one another and care about each other, that's what life is supposed to be about. It's all a fairness issue, once again. I support recognition of civil unions and I would support legislation that recognizes the realities of a loving, caring relationship between two individuals, regardless of gender.

Attorney Paul Mangieri

I think that the government of Luxembourg, like the unions, will reject the offer.

John Castegnaro

The whole point of this bill was to create incentives for a technology that is currently too expensive so that over time it will become cost- competitive, ... Now, the unions will be artificially increasing the cost of the already too expensive technology in order to line their own pockets.

John Campbell

The climate is still not a positive one between the unions and the government.

John Fryer

People are clear that the public employee unions' bosses have a beef with the governor. And now they're going to hear what the governor's trying to do: Bring reform to a system that badly needs it.

Rob Stutzman

We will defend the legality of the measures we have taken. We think they are in line with European law. Our government attorneys will reply to the European Union's request in that vein.

Jose Montilla

It's not that unions are losing members, it's just that they aren't able to keep up with the growth in the labor force.

John Budd

Unions will never recover their historic 35 percent workforce. They may creep back up a little bit in some of these areas, because some employers are sophisticated enough to work alongside the union and utilize them as an ombudsman they don't have to pay for.

Fred Carstensen

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

Max Eastman

It's not these locals' fault that their national unions left the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and it's not working people's fault. They shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a decision by their leadership. Solidarity charters will allow unions to work together and let working people still benefit from a united grass-roots movement.

John J. Sweeney

It seems to be designed as an attack on civil unions.

David Schwartz

A lot of employers would say it is too easy at the moment for unions to be able to put themselves in a position where they can take protected industrial action and, once it is occurring, too difficult to bring it to an end.

David Gregory

There's a whole culture change involved here. It all hinges on contractual issues. It's all contingent on the unions and us resolving these issues and getting contracts.

Jack Coyle

We're asking for all of our workers to be paid at market ( competitive) levels. Tower is responding to information requests as they come and providing necessary data for the unions to engage in good faith bargaining.

Sharon Wenzl

Unions fulfil a very important role.

Frank Stronach

We are working with our unions to get  contracts settled and to further reduce wage costs, ... I am confident they will respond constructively.

John Creighton

Katrina and oil prices are simply the straw that broke the camel's back. Delta was going to file anyway. And Northwest was playing chicken with its unions. It seems to me they didn't do nearly enough and waited much too long. They thought they could just ride it out. But the rise in oil prices upset everyone's plans.

Michael Roach

This is not, from Union's perspective, a political fight. Sure, there are others who, for various reasons, are interested in having Ms. Petera deposed, but I am not advancing anyone's political agenda.

Christopher Spencer

Working people in this country need stronger unions, ... Employers continue taking things away from workers.

James R. Hoffa (jimmy)

So far we have been in a phase of protest that in general was less explosive because there has been a strong coalition between unions and students. If divisions emerge, it would create a very high risk of violence, chaos and police violence.

François Dubet

The unions are fighting against their own decline. Their margin of movement is decreasing. It will be a tough battle.

Klaus Zimmermann

We have a committee working on a policy [at First Presbyterian], and I am certain the outcome will allow the pastor to bless civil unions.

Terry Davis

Without the Soviet Union's material base, Russia now is playing the part of a global power comparable to the United States. The current Russian elite shares a Soviet vision of the world … and it's trying to imitate Soviet diplomatic efforts.

Viktor Mizin

Significant progress has been made in addressing the union's issue, to obtain proposals to make it easier to conduct an organizing campaign.

Steve Marcus

The mechanics' union is quite weakened by its isolation, ... If they had the support of the other unions, especially the machinists, which represents the largest number of employees at Northwest - all the baggage handlers and gate agents - they really could have shut the airline down.

John Fossum

I can understand that some unions have frustrations and they have to be addressed, but you can't keep everyone happy.

Johan Prinsloo

Delta's problem is not labor, it's debt. They have achieved labor cuts, and can achieve more because they have only two unions. But until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.

Michael Boyd

Today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Peter Kalikow

I can identify with what they (other unions) are going through.

Wayne Webster

The unions have been a partner with us from the beginning.

Larry Orluskie

It's so hard to make a living as an actor, with 95% of the SAG members unemployed at one time. That includes all the different unions, too, that unless you HAVE to do it, that it's in your soul and you MUST do it you feel, don't do it.

Stephen Root

It still needs to be addressed with unions and GM.

Claudia Baucus

All of it is Union?s defense. They play up-tempo, in-your-face basketball. They are physical and athletic. They are going to force you to do things you don?t want to do. They contest every shot. It is not like some other teams where you get a chance to get yourself set. You have got to get the shot off quick.

Gus Simpson

Uncertain times are the best shot unions have to try and increase their organizing efforts in the private sector, ... The real question is, ' Are they going to be successful?'

Lawrence Lorber

The reason why in construction it's particularly important is because it's very difficult for employees to be able to communicate with anybody off site. If it weren't so ridiculously difficult, under the current laws, for workers to get together to form unions, it wouldn't be as necessary as it is because the laws are stacked against workers.

Kelly Ross

The surface of the dispute is about pay reduction, but I think that beneath this issue there is more deep-seated distrust of the government because the unions are saying that if the government can legislate on a pay cut, the government can legislate on anything.

Anthony Cheung

This proves that workers must become priority creditors, and administrators should consult with unions before laying anyone off.

Adrian Ross

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

I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ... the unions and the special interests that listen to her and have them recognize they are destroying jobs and opportunities in the state.

Mark Alesse

It's the unions. We have had trouble with them because they don't want blacks on this job. We put blacks on the job and they don't like it.

William Mason

So trade unions in Beijing should take the benchmark rate as weapons.

Dong Li

On Oct. 1, civil unions become law in Connecticut, but there is not a JP in that room who knows what to do with it. It's going to be a mess.

Saul Haffner

All the unions have already agreed to assess the action today and consider more if we do not get the appropriate responses to the complaints voiced in the street.

Bernard Thibault

Kinky can truly speak his mind. He is not bound by the party machine. He is a true independent. He cannot be bought off by lobbyists. He is not taking money from corporations or unions.

John Mcdowell

It seems everything was moving forward smoothly except for a couple of hiccups with the unions and the bid dispute, but those were just speed bumps in the process.

Jeff Mikulina

When the governor started going after those public employee unions he made those rookie mistakes that we learned back in the '70s. And it does nothing but get you in trouble.

Allan Hoffenblum

The last thing we want to see is one of your bigger unions eventually closing their doors. As much as we have a responsibility to the Spears, we have a responsibility to the bigger unions.

Johan Prinsloo

There's also a great legacy in terms of working with the unions. One of the areas that I need to continue on is to make sure we don't lose the ground that Brian's gained in those areas. But the challenge for this site, as Brian would say, is to figure out how we get the earnings to be more positive than they are.

Brian Baarda

The way unions are presently structured is often anachronistic. They don't want to recognize that the world has moved on. Management isn't treating employees like they were in the 1930s or '40s.

Patrick Berman

These bring the people together and bring the unions together. We all have very common interests, which is the plight of the working people. We work very well together on common issues.

Tom Schneider

This is a more militant union that most public sector unions. These workers face on a daily basis far more difficult working conditions than the standard government employee. The workers as a group feel management is too heavy-handed. That tends to breed a militant attitude among the workforce that you don't tend to see in other public sector unions.

Richard Hurd

I took an oath, not to protect unions, but to do what is in the best interest to protect the welfare of the citizens of Palm Springs. When I look at the people who are employed there and the million-dollar tax base it's brought in, how could I in clear conscience say no? I am a Democrat to the core, but I am an independent thinker.

Ron Oden

Dr. King stood for not just persons of color, but he also stood for women. He also stood for workers. He stood for unions. He stood for auto workers and all of those things, plus others.

Pat Clark

One thing I am looking forward to is laying this out and getting all of our people focused on delivering this piece of what we have to do. This speculation does not help us with our unions and our people in the development centers.

Jim Padilla

While there will be no major increases, we need to do basic things to ensure human dignity outside of the usual scheme of things... and we need to explore the role of trade unions in national development and how to advance collaboration to achieve certain objectives.

Dr Omar Davies

I think it's rather ironic these are the accusations management is making, when in fact union density is quite low nationally, ... If the law was so weighted in favor of unions, then we wouldn't have the situation we face today with a significant decline in union density across the country.

Kent Wong

There's no shortage of issues for unions to organize around in high-tech--job insecurity, the threat of outsourcing. It's not an issue of whether there'd be responsiveness.

Kent Wong

It's particularly ironic that teachers are being forced to pay for the union's opposition to a referendum to give teachers a choice about whether the union can spend their money for politics.

Stefan Gleason

Most banks and credit unions recognize that providing strong authentication is an essential first step in meeting FFIEC requirements and maintaining the trust of their online customers. However, the cost and complexity of solutions developed for the enterprise environment, such as hardware tokens, are prohibitive for large-scale consumer deployments.

Paul Barrett

These claims do not represent our position. We are in negotiations and are optimistic we will reach an agreement. Historically, we have enjoyed good relationships with the unions.

Rob Doughty

We are having private conversations with each of our labor unions to discuss issues impacting the future of Northwest.

Kurt Ebenhoch

The right to work law would effect some counties more than us. There are no organized (labor) unions in the county, so it wouldn't really impact us.

Wade Gutman

Let them strike. Unions to me are kind of passe. I pay for health care. They should pay for health care, too.

Tricia Rettig

I tend to think of it as a macro-economic factor. The economy is growing well, there is really no inflation and the labor market has been tight everywhere, so you start to see some things show up, like the GM labor dispute. Unions get more aggressive.

Tony Ferrugia

For federal purposes, civil unions are not marriages.

Andrew Koppelman

The manager seems to get pushed aside. You listen to the unions; you listen to the political leadership because it has power. [Managers] are just supposed to go out there and do their job and approve sick leave requests and do performance appraisals, and they are sort of expected to just kind of go out there and keep their mouth shut.

William Bransford

Many New Yorkers, rightly or wrongly, feel that the union's case is not as strong as it might be because they don't have very good pensions themselves. It's not something like the safety issue or the conductor issue or the token clerk issue, where the union has significant common ground with the transit riding public.

Robert Snyder

This judgment proves that the workers must become priority creditors and that administrators should consult with unions before laying off any workers.

Adrian Ross

Is it the employer who controls whether an employee gets to take comp time or overtime or the employee? ... When unions hear 'flexibility' they hear employers (not workers) get the flexibility to schedule the work.

Thomas Kochan

Certainly we would like 1199's support to join with all the other unions that have endorsed Mike Bloomberg.

William Cunningham

He dedicated his professional career to kids, and his retirement years to volunteer work, especially work with the credit unions.

Jim Fuglie

I've never met anybody more committed to public service. He was an old New Deal Democrat, very close to the unions.

Steve Larson

Unions drag down business, growth is slower, and right-to-work laws weaken the unions. So when the unions are weaker, you tend to have more economic growth.

Lee Coppock

By working together, we can build a strong, unified passenger-service group and protect and improve conditions for employees that both unions represent at US Airways.

Larry Cohen

If it's not true, we'll make a retraction and apologize. We were just going on information that AFL-CIO told us. I'd like to say that I'm proud to have the endorsement of the AFL-CIO. From what they told me, it came with the unions that go along with that.

Nick Loeb

We're hoping they will recommend civil unions becoming legal and established in the state of Oregon and discrimination becoming illegal.

Roey Thorpe

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

Unions have a bad rap in Mexico and South America.

Joe Mota