"Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups.……" — John F. Kennedy
"Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor."
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622 Quotes by John F. Kennedy
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend…
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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be…
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
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In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and…
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
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People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the…
— Stonewall Jackson
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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not…
— Cesar Chavez
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If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip
— Ronald Reagan
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While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
— Christopher Marlowe
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To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker…
— Janeane Garofalo
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All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of…
— Frank Knight
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Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
— Philo
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The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it…
— Paul Clark
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Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to…
— Leigh Steinberg
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There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins…
— Walter Reuther
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That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual…
— Haile Selassie
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