Quotes tagged ‘Unions’

“IATSE has launched a campaign to unionize the production and post-production workers at The Young Turks, the left-leaning online news outlet that produces a variety of programs, including its flagship talk show, The Young Turks.”

— David Robb, deadline.com

“I’ve often noted that companies have enormous capacity to help their communities. But too often they act like American tobacco companies, which killed more people than Stalin did, or pharma companies peddling opioids, or McKinsey & Company advising a business to 'get more patients on higher doses of…”

— Nicholas Kristof, nytimes.com

“Well, I'm a huge fan of unions, but we have to face facts where union membership has declined by almost 50% over the last number of decades. And their power has diminished accordingly. And so if we say, look, we're going to magically revive an economy of the 70s, where union membership is back to th…”

— Andrew Yang, 2020poolreports.substack.com

“Jonah Peretti, the co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, has said in the past that he doesn't think unions are 'right' for the company.”

— Tom Kludt, An Phung, cnn.com

“Captain O'Hagan: There was a time when we'd take a guy like you in the back and beat you with a hose. Now you've got your goddamned unions. Farva: Cap'n...you know I'm not a pro-union guy.”

— Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Farva, Kevin Heffernan, imdb.com

“Captain O'Hagan: That's it. You're off the road, never again. Farva: Sir, it was not my fault! Captain O'Hagan: Neither was the goddamn school bus! You know, there was a time we'd take a guy like you out back and beat you with a hose; now you got your Goddamn unions. Farva: Cap, You know I'm not a p…”

— Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Farva, Kevin Heffernan, imdb.com

“We all do better when we all do better.”

— Paul Wellstone, wellstone.org