24 Quotes by Gary Chaison

They are trying to do an end-run around the union and go directly to the membership, ... They believe that what they're doing is acceptable to the membership, but not to the leadership.

Their feeling is, 'This is my only chance to get a job in this industry again, and I'm taking the job of a worker who miscalculated and walked off the job,'

In collective bargaining, it's important for both parties to get used to losing because they have to make initial demands or offers and then they have to be willing to accept less.

In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.

General Motors is more than just a symbol of American industry. It envelops the towns where it operates, and people become dependent on it in those towns.

The Machinists are saying, 'We're going to make a stand and make them respect us,' ... This is what the union strategy is as a Labor Day celebration of the power of labor.