“I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.” WantedFacesKnownBrokenMy FriendsLaborWorkersNosesOur SocietyBeatenUnemploymentFace To FaceDemonstratingLabor Movement Author:Mary Heaton Vorse
“The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.” NeedsCountryBrokenDependsWorkersImmigrationFixedImmigrantsImmigrant Workers Author:Pramila Jayapal
“I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.” NeedsDoeI CanGovernmentJobsPayRightsBrokenProtectTaxesProjectsUnionsExtraordinaryWorkersVotersEuropean UnionEuroBrusselsBailoutsWorkers RightsCan't Trust You Author:Gisela Stuart
“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.” MenWorldSelfTogetherWalksHalfMiddleBrokenOfficeAngelWorkersMonstersGhostBeastSovereignExileRippedBack TogetherWaiterWatchersWanderersBusted Author:Walker Percy