#workers

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run. ↗

— Andy Stern

#auto #had #i #i think #job

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#any #attitude #because #better #doomed

While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment. ↗

— Mark Udall

#accounting #american #believe #critical #done

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#coworkers #even #fact #family #friends

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#american #american people #congress #listened #minimum-wage

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#better #brothers #color #conditions #creed

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#campaign #dollars #group #half #him

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. ↗

— John Sununu

#economic #far #follows #i #i do

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#merely #politics #really #think #tools