Politics Quote by Tim Parks

“it’s three strikes and you’re out of the union”

— J.S. Mason

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort,…

— Paul Clark

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the…

— Richard Grimes

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now,…

— Lynn Nottage

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

— Abraham Lincoln

That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it…

— Peter Drucker

What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of…

— Meridel Le Sueur

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you…

— Lucy Parsons

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but…

— Sidney Lens

“In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?”

— Slavoj Žižek

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom…

— Ray Stannard Baker

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only…

— Michael Gove