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Hilda Solis
American
Politician
Born:
Oct 20
,
1957
Children
Life
People
Training
Women
You
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At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.
Hilda Solis
Home
You
People
Pay
Mine
Adequate
Out
Collectively
Able
Only
Voice
Feel
Come
Like
Know
Safe
Conditions
Times
Improve
Get
Whether
Working
Bargain
Coal
Speaking
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
Hilda Solis
People
Unions
Our
Reminded
Economy
Historic
Very
Role
Played
Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration.
Hilda Solis
Success
Guidance
People
Training
Job
Young
Interviews
Summer
Dress
Inspiration
Nail
Know
Most
How
Hands-On
Young People
Need
The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
Hilda Solis
Best
Women
Training
Advice
Increase
Give
Area
Through
Glass
Still
Ceiling
Where
Break
Levels
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
Hilda Solis
Work
Food
Family
Depend
Table
Put
Forced
Labor
Person
Children
Should
Captivity
Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category.
Hilda Solis
Education
You
Training
Minority
Fall
Other
Latinos
High
High Level
Some
Cases
Rates
Higher
Particular
Category
Times
Unemployment
American
Going
African
African Americans
Groups
Suffer
Level
I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.
Hilda Solis
Life
Wonderful
Opportunity
Fighting
Saw
Secretary
Further
Seize
Had
Prospect
Policies
Been
Labor
Whole
Serving
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
Hilda Solis
Health
Better
Mother
Care
Father
Member
More
He
California
Health Care
Line
Years
Than
Where
Worked
Workers
Organize
Union
Helped
Assembly
Assembly Line
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
Hilda Solis
Youth
Community
Needy
Aide
Programs
Teens
Various
Mentoring
Students
Delivering
Worked
Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
Hilda Solis
Day
You
Big
Lost
Mine
Miners
Mines
Tell
Someone
California
Well
Learned
Around
Proud
Lot
Tragic
Up
Branch
Southern
Southern California
Upper
Coal
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Things
We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.
Hilda Solis
Women
Seen
Programs
Apprentice
Jobs
Through
Highly
Doing
Go
Women Are
Trained
Did
Capable
Who
Now
Need
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