Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure,… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
