Chains Quote by Sharan Burrow

The failure of unions to support efforts to increase employee involvement and ownership coincided with their unwillingness to speak out on the broader issues…

— James O'Toole

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends,…

— Vladimir Putin

Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example,…

— Letitia James

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can…

— Harry Bridges

“One of the big strategic advantages of manufacturers outsourcing production is that they are not as vulnerable to fixed-cost pressures to fill the factories…

— Greg Thain

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

— Dawn Foster

When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in…

— Sharan Burrow

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt.…

— Adam Smith

With high-profile jobs, comes pressure and competition.

— Sourav Ganguly

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

In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many…

— Oliver DeMille