I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.
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.
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.
Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
Love is a state of union. When you can receive love, you can know union.
There are huge political problems in Germany, but German economic power is something which was bound to happen. The way out of this situation is through the further democratization of the European Union and a changing of its structures.
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the state legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them?. . . This power must either be a direct negative on the state laws, or an authority in the federal courts, to over-rule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of union.
Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.
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The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.
If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers. . . if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.
For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.
And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.