#workers

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco. ↗

— James Sinegal

#been #buy #class #costco #favor

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#also #concerned #countries #even #exploitation

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#borders #burma #china #clearly #economy

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. ↗

— John Sweeney

#bush #bush administration #legislation #opposed #overtime

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#forget #let us #me #much #recent

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#committees #conditions #councils #crises #highest

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#especially #fear #government #government workers #included

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#equality #fraud #freedom #lie #lying

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#children #come #days #defending #easy