#workers

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship. ↗

— John Shadegg

#business owners #case #citizenship #guest #made

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. ↗

— John Shadegg

#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise. ↗

— John Shadegg

#advocate #already #borders #citizenship #compromise

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that. ↗

— James Sinegal

#along #class #disenchanted #disenfranchised #dynamics

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

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work. ↗

— Andy Stern

#change #country #enough #group #having

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating. ↗

— Andy Stern

#deteriorating #economic #general #i #particularly

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. ↗

— Andy Stern

#any #bargain #common #divides #each

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? ↗

— Andy Stern

#always #bargaining #change #collective #collective bargaining