Workers Quotes

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As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in… — Bill Dedman
Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of… — Joe Wurzelbacher
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. — Robert Dallek
The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field… — Anthony Fauci
Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as… — Alex Berenson
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government… — Charles Duhigg
Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business… — Bobby Schilling
The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes… — Alan Huffman
As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment. — Robert Reich
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them.… — Robert Reich
Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be -… — Robert Reich
During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to… — Robert Reich
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair… — Robert Reich
My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. — Michael Leunig
Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result… — Michael Leunig
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the… — James P. Hoffa
All workers want is a fair shake. — James P. Hoffa
Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work. — James P. Hoffa
Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by… — James P. Hoffa
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The… — Edmund White

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