“We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.” StrongSocialDemocracyShareSecurityTaxesUnionsWesternWorkersProfitIncomeOwnersContractsTemperSocial SecurityCompensationIncome TaxBusiness OwnersEquitableSocial Contract Author:John Shelby Spong
“I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWellsMotherRoomsWifePreparedWorkersMy WifeSavedManagersGreat MenGreat WorkArrowsGreat MotherGreat ManagersSlings And ArrowsGreat WifeLove My WifeI Love My Wife Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“There's certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen to the counselors and social workers and everybody else talking at you, you would think that once you got out of high school and college, life would be beautiful. But it's not.” IfsThinkingWould BeSchoolBeautifulCertainSocialTalkingClassCollegeHigh SchoolWorkersSocial WorkerCounselorCollege Life Author:Snoop Dogg
“I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.” KnowsGovernmentStrongRightsProtectTradeUnionsWorkersLabourTrade Unions Author:Gisela Stuart
“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
“The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.” WorstWorkersBossGoing OutWorst Things Author:Sadiq Khan
“We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.” MeanRightsRedWorkersTapeRed Tape Author:Frances O'Grady
“Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.” ThinkingYearsCoursesSocialChancePerfectVisionOffersEuropeWorkersReformStayingPacePassportsSocial Reform Author:Frances O'Grady
“Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.” DifficultAchieveConditionsStructureWorkersWagesFast FoodWorking Conditions Author:David Rolf
“Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.” WinningIndividualParentCompanyUnionsWorkersCampaignsTraditionalRecognitionOwnersOrganizeEmployersOutletsBargainsSubwayMcdonaldsFast Food Author:David Rolf
“The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.” PeopleIfsDoneEnoughWould BeJobsPayPaidWorkersVery GoodGood JobFree MarketPennies Author:David Rolf
“When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.” JobsEconomyCostWorkersLocalsProductivePocketsMore MoneyReducingTurnover Author:David Rolf
“Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.” WorldWarTodayWorkersProductivityWar Of The WorldsGapsWorld War IiWorld War ITypicalCompensation Author:David Rolf
“When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.” ThinkingWayMayBodyCompanyTasteEatingConsequenceRaisedWorkersYour BodyMealsRestaurantsFarmsPotatoesCattleFast FoodFast Food Restaurants Author:Eric Schlosser
“I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.” YearsBookCountryStatesAmericaJusticeUnitedUnited StatesWrittenSeeingCrimeTreatsVictimPrisonWorkersFollowingCriminalsImmigrantsIllegalFarmsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeMigrantsIllegal ImmigrantsCriminal Justice System Author:Eric Schlosser
“Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement during Mussolini. They'd do much for their own workers and peasants, socially... as long as funds were flowing in from the countries plundered by their imperialism.” LongCountryPartyMovementMembersWorkersFundItalianSocialistImperialismPeasantsWwiiFascistsSocialist Party Author:Andre Vltchek
“Under Bernie Sanders, Western workers would definitely do much better, but the rest of the world, the "wretched of the Earth" would still have to pay the bill.” WorldStillsEarthPayBillsWesternWorkersWretched Author:Andre Vltchek
“For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd.” WorldFeelsTryingYearsGovernmentLeftDealsCitizensFairsVictimWorkersSorryAbsurdFakeImperialism Author:Andre Vltchek
“When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.” MeanWorkersIncomeAssetsMore MoneyInflationHousingDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.” PeopleIfsWantEconomyGrowingLaborWorkersWages Author:Michael Hudson
“In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.” WorldJobsCitiesTheaterBlueWorkersLots Of MoneyWorth ItCollarsAccommodateBest JobBlue CollarLiving In The CityBlue Collar Workers Author:Randy Harrison
“What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.” LooksInterestNumbersPolicyTrumpTradeWorkersFocusedGdpAmerican WorkersResonating Author:Rick Santorum
“I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.” ThinkingMovementCatholicWorkersPeter Author:Shane Claiborne
“My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.” FatherAwarenessParticularWorkersOccupationLinksGrandfatherSolidaritySteelMiners Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.” WorldHardJusticeDecisionViewsPowerfulDoorsWorkersOur SocietyStereotypeEmployersHarassmentSandra Day O Connor Author:Joe Biden
“There's no need to be fearful when another person succeeds. In fact, joining forces and supporting fellow teachers (or co-workers) you believe in is one of the most empowering moves you can make.” NeedsBelievePersonsFactsMovingForceTeacherSucceedFellowsWorkersEmpoweringFearfulJoiningCo Worker Author:Kathryn Budig
“I just don't think there's that many people who think it's wrong to have control on our borders. That's not racism. It's not racism to question some of the political correctness today that's going on, to recognize that things are going as well as - for American workers, as they'd like, because people, their frustration is arising from a deep sense of unease that Washington is fiddling while their house is burning.” PeopleThinkingWellsTodayPoliticalHouseRacismWorkersBurningBordersFrustrationPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessAmerican Workers Author:Jeff Sessions
“[Donald] Trump, I think, understands it. He has said this is going to be a new Republican Party, a workers' Republican Party, instead of just the elite Republican Party.” ThinkingSaidPartyTrumpRepublicanWorkersElitesRepublican Party Author:Jeff Sessions
“When you have a candidate like Donald Trump saying that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, and also doubling down and suggesting that we should deport 11 million undocumented workers, who are mostly people that came to this country to better themselves, and to patrol neighborhoods of predominantly Muslims families. This shows you how deeply held those feelings really are in our country and that the Republicans have absolutely no interest in helping minorities.” PeopleShouldCountryHelpingShowsFeelingsInterestMillionsTrumpRepublicanDrugDown AndWorkersOur CountryCandidatesMinoritiesNeighborhoodDealerSuggestingDrug DealersUndocumented WorkersMuslim Family Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.” PeopleGivingChildrenI CanBookHandsCareTodayAbleSchoolLyingTurnsCan DoExistenceSeeingStreetsLessonsWorkersRageDiscriminationHealth CareStemSegregationExclusionMigrantsAmbulancePeople LieMigrant Workers Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“We, the people, gave the marching orders to our democratically-elected officials and instructed them. We wanted out of Vietnam and we got out of Vietnam. We wanted women's right to choose and we got women's right to choose. We got the EPA, we got the Clean Air Act, Water Act, we got rights for workers in the workplace to be protected from dangers. We accomplished pretty much all of what we wanted when we had the courage of our convictions. That is the missing ingredient.” PeopleWantedOrderWaterRightsAirMissingDangerCleanWorkersConvictionOfficialsAccomplishedIngredientsVietnamProtectedWorkplaceElected OfficialsClean AirEpa Author:Jill Stein
“I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.” HardRememberThreeDifficultHoursChurchRightsStreetsMissingWorkersCornersTraumaCivil RightsBaptistsMississippiBirmingham Author:John Lewis
“What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.” PeopleJobsOpportunityProcessGrowthCan DoChallengesShapesCreatingOrdinaryEnvironmentalWorkersProtectionIntegrationOrdinary PeopleRapidsStrengtheningBetter JobsRapid GrowthEnvironmental Challenges Author:Barack Obama
“There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.” IfsLeftProcessBehindsFocusDangerIncreaseWorkersProtectionInequalitySufficientProvidingGlobalizationLeft BehindMobile Author:Barack Obama
“Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.” Has BeensEndsLawTurnsNationsSidesEconomyWesternWorkersBoth SidesAbidingPropsBarbaric Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.” ClassMiddleMilitaryGrewGrew UpWorkersMiddle ClassThis DayConstructionMy Best FriendConstruction Workers Author:Miles Teller
“I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.” PeopleCareInterestWorkersFarms Author:Dolores Huerta
“Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.” PeopleImportantClassDemocracyMiddleProductsLaborWorkersPreservesOrganizedContributionMiddle ClassOur SocietyRecognizingConnectingOrganized Labor Author:Dolores Huerta
“We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.” PeopleNeedsTogetherAttentionDemocracyWorkersSymbolsPay AttentionFarmsBells Author:Dolores Huerta
“Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.” WorldAbleTogetherGainsWorkersProfitIncomeInequalityWorking TogetherGet AwayEmployersIncome Inequality Author:Dolores Huerta
“It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.” MoralIssuesTreatsWorkersCompromisePrincipledMoral Issues Author:Edward Kennedy
“What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.” PeopleNeedsGivingMillionsFocusGroupsMinutesConversationNormalWorkersRageBordersFarmsFocus Groups Author:David Brooks
“I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.” ThinkingMaySaidMomentsRememberCertainLevelsHappeningsWorkersProductionsOilHeatGasCollapseRemember WhenDepositsOil And GasOil PriceOil ProductionHeat Of The Moment Author:Vladimir Putin
“Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.” CausesGoalClassPathEnvironmentSolutionsFemaleWorkersMalesDishesSolidarityWorking Class Author:Nadezhda Krupskaya
“Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date” IfsShouldLooksLastsMonthsWorkersBoringEach DayProceduresTediousManuals Author:Taiichi Ohno
“... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas.” GivingYearsMindIdeasLightLevelsCasesParticularCircumstancesEvidenceWorkersFixedRejectsSignificanceHypothesis Author:Ronald Fisher
“I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.” NeedsSaidHardAchieveProduceHard WorkIncreaseWorkersAverageProductionsIncomeAnnualsChile Author:Salvador Allende
“Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.” AbleLeftInterestCommunityUnitedCommonPracticeMetsSkillsOrganizationBlessedWorkersFarmsGrassrootsCommunity ServiceCommon InterestsChavez Author:Dolores Huerta
“We have to make it easier to be good workers, good parents and good caregivers all at the same time. That's why I've set out a bold vision to make quality, affordable child care available to all Americans and limit the cost to 10 percent of family income.” ChildrenCareParentQualityVisionEasierCostLimitsPercentWorkersAvailableBe GoodIncomeGood WorkAffordableGood ParentCaregiversChild Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting fighters overseas, also the one that was holding James Foley and John Cantlie and Kayla Mueller?” GroupsWorkersAidsFighterJournalistPropagandaIsisCoupsExportingKayla Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi