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Workers Quotes by Robert Reich
- There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
- When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
- Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
- 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.
- 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.…
- Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be -…
- 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…
- 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…
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- We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to… — Cesar Chavez
- The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson
- Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's… — Unknown Author