I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.
To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.
Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.
Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.
