The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.
Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.