#ate

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#american #american workers #belonged #card #carry

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#bay #began #captured #combatants #complained

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#claim #comes #condition #deck #dues

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#always #been #creative #expand #finding

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#black #different #greater #i #imagine

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#comfortable #feet #hate #having #hear

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#guy #happy #i #just #know

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#appreciate #bare #forward #fruit #learn

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other. ↗

— Tina Fey

#each #i #like #men #much