Picket Quotations

On campuses and in the areas outside each and every university entrance there are solid picket lines and no one is going in. Students have decided to show their support by not going in.

Negotiating is really the art of the possible. I'm not sure you're going to get guys making a million dollars a year to walk a picket line.

If I was making a prediction today, we'll be on the picket line, forced there by DaimlerChrysler management,

It's almost kind of the worst scenario for the union. I would think that sometime in the next couple of weeks you might see some striking mechanics crossing the picket line to go back to work.

Instead of setting up picket lines, they should be sending that final offer out for a vote, ... Let the people decide.

What happened today confirms what we said all along. It's better to be at the bargaining table than on the picket line.

We are ready to play unconditionally and immediately, but apparently we've been locked out. We took the picket signs down, and we did it for all the audience members and all of New York.

More people cross picket lines and think less about the consequences.

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

We were ready to go another two years (on the picket line). I'm surprised it ended early.