“Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.” HomeNationsRiskBuiltWorkersProfitSeekingAcceptedPursuitExpensesPioneersAmerican WorkersOffshore Author:Ted Strickland
“If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?” PeopleIfsEndsHomeCareParticularBenefitsWorkersHealth CareEngagedKnowledge Workers Author:Mark T Bertolini
“Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.” HomeCommonPayBenefitsLowsWorkersSpendingCommon SenseConsumers Author:Mark Price
“I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.” KnowsHomeRememberCommunityViolenceFootballWorkersWinterStrikesViolentClosingBombingManchesterBirminghamIraFootball Match Author:Noel Gallagher
“Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.” WritingHomeTodayFacesTerribleWorkersCastsClothingsOaksDuskWomens DayReturning HomeNonentity Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.” HomeSleepWifeMovementCookingWorkersReceivingProvidingOppressedCleaningMigrantsMigrant Workers Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.” WorldEnoughWholeHomeAmericaCapitalismStructureWorkersWhole WorldLifts Author:James P. Cannon
“The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.” IfsHardHomeProtectWorkersConsumersGoodsManufacturingReconstructionRetailAmerican Workers Author:Lindsey Graham