#workers

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured. ↗

— Andy Stern

#correlation #how #i #issue #labor

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

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#railroad #russia #space #why #women

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#been #benefits #captured #counterparts #disparity

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. ↗

— Harry Anderson

#been #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #climb

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

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

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#any #ask #band #been #better

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#business #country #employment #every #farmers

In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. ↗

— Justin Sane

#business #celebrate #doing #exception #general