Workers Quotes · Page 22

Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions.

— Jan Schakowsky

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

— Oscar Romero

Joining a union makes it more powerful and in turn strengthens the rights of all workers.

— Dawn Foster

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner…

— Leon Trotsky

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

— Dolores Huerta

I'm honored to have the trust and support of the United Mine Workers of America and the working families they represent.

— Andy Beshear

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

— Robert S. Strauss

Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal…

— Jan C. Ting

Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little…

— Richard Attias

You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person?…

— Ronee Blakley

Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down…

— David Mccandless

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of…

— Jürgen Moltmann

I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and hes incredibly charismatic, even when hes not acting.…

— Jonathan Jackson

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of…

— Edmund White

I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to…

— Rick Santorum

What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they…

— David Graeber

The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific…

— John Dewey

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding…

— Jacques Barzun

One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans…

— Jacob K. Javits

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another…

— James Cross Giblin

Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected…

— Murray Bookchin

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things…

— Wilferd Peterson

But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

— Clara Zetkin

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

— Adriana Lima

I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker.…

— Lav Diaz

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number…

— Fritz Sauckel

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

— Fareed Zakaria

“The project workers are the ones most familiar with the territory of the project. If a given direction doesn’t make sense to…

— Tom DeMarco

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.

— Geoff Mulgan

Our party is not like the Congress, where leaders are more important than the party and ethics. In our party, people and…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing’s profit-making machine,

— Kshama Sawant

“There have been a few workers we had to deep-freeze, some who aren’t fit for another shift.”

— Hugh Howey

“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

— Jerry Rubin

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out…

— Victor Borge

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

— John Medina