500 Workers Quotes for You to Enjoy

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood. Jackie Speier

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Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s. Jacob Weisberg

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A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. James Larkin

Degree Medium System Carried Mutual More Only Employers Arrangement Repeat Than Any Whereby Gain Workers Satisfaction Satisfactory Present

When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic. James Nesbitt

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All workers want is a fair shake. James P. Hoffa

Shake Fair Fair Shake Want Workers

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. James Surowiecki

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Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. James Surowiecki

Construction Money Matter Once Months Those Destroyed City Remarkable Devastated Disasters Redistribution Insurance Insurance Companies Smoothly Replace Quickly Happen Regions Them Themselves Taxpayers Workers Who Companies Even Lived Reinventing

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future. Jan C. Ting

Future Technology Will Advancing Robotics Reduce Workers Need

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans. Jan C. Ting

Higher wages for American workers are not just good for American families, they are good for our economy. I will keep fighting for a raise for hard working Americans so our families can afford housing, help their children get a quality education, and secure a good retirement. Jan Schakowsky

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We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve. Jan Schakowsky

Ensure Must Get American Workers American Workers Deserve Raise

Food service workers, home care workers, farm workers, and other low-wage workers log long hours. They come home tired after providing services and producing goods that make our country stronger. They deserve fair treatment from their employers, and they deserve a voice in collective bargaining. Jan Schakowsky

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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet. Jan Schakowsky

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One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together. Janet Reno

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. Janet Yellen

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Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended to be pro-cyclical, since more workers voluntarily quit their jobs when they are more confident about their ability to find new ones and when firms are competing more actively for new hires. Janet Yellen

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In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. Janos Kadar

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That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout. Jason Fried

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No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers. Jason Kander

Good Seriously Minimum Minimum Wage No-One Wage Cutting Workers Believes

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