“Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.” LinesCompanyPositionSmartManagementWorkersBottomBoardsThings To DoRight ThingFormalSeniorBottom LineSenior Management Author:Michelle Bachelet
“Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.” NeedsBillsWorkersStuckHealthcareEmergenciesTaxpayers Author:Spencer Bachus
“By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.” AmericaCultureGrowthPossibilityWorkersInventionWelcome Author:Ron Conway
“If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.” IfsWellsPlayMightWorkersGuitarConstructionNashvilleConstruction Workers Author:Patrick Carney
“I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.” HardLinesHard WorkWorkersHard Worker Author:Diane Cilento
“I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.” ThinkingWayNeedsIdeasGovernmentGrowthPleasureRichCuttingTaxesNegativeCatEnvironmentalWorkersProtectionFatsStrokesOld FashionedEnvironmental ProtectionNegative Thinking Author:Vince Cable
“My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.” MeanHas BeensBigsJobsPastCompanySupportCuttingGrowingRedTradeWorkersBritishBritainInvestorsTapeCommerceInwardPromotingNeglectedEmergingSuffocatingRed TapeSkilled WorkersEmerging Markets Author:Vince Cable
“It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.” AmericaCitiesBuiltWorkersRuinsSpainPalaces Author:Buenaventura Durruti
“I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.” TodaySupportEconomyProgramLaborSouthWorkersCriticalSecureBordersTexasGuestsNorth And SouthSkilled Workers Author:David Dewhurst
“Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.” YearsHelpingBenefitsSickPaidSevenWorkersOur FamilyThings To DoRight ThingFriendlyProvidingFamily FriendsSeven DaysMinnesotansSick Leave Author:Mark Dayton
“Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.” TwoReasonGovernmentPresidentResultsEffortMillionsWorkersMemoirUnemploymentAvoided1930sHoover Author:Barry Eichengreen
“My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.” MotherInvolvedWorkersCaliforniaFarmsBehalfMigrantsChavez Author:Caitlin Flanagan
“I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.” WayLooksPersonsLongSaidFatherCompanySourceSickWorkersSatisfactionUnhappyGoing To WorkHappy PersonUnhappy Person Author:Jonathan Franzen
“As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.” ShouldLongHomeEconomyWorkersAdmireLoyalAttackingMigrants Author:Vicente Fox
“According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.” YearsLastsAmericaBornMillionsStudyPercentWorkersBillionsIncomeLatinLast YearGrossLatin America Author:Luis Gutierrez
“And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.” YearsShowsSocialForgetStudySecurityLet MeWorkersBillionsRepeatsSocial SecuritySubsidiesSecurity SystemsUndocumented Workers Author:Luis Gutierrez
“My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.” WayWellsHouseParentCrazyHugeMajorityWorkersMumStaffExtravagantHouseworkNannies Author:Petra Stunt
“Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.” ShowsSocialWorkersSocial Worker Author:Elton John
“Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.” ScienceMistakeFrontsBuildingWorkersIndispensableHypothesisScaffolding Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.” MenWayHumansSeemsWould BeScienceCertainIndividualNumbersQualityStudyDoubtGroupsSubjectsLimitsScientistIncreaseWorkersBest WayNo DoubtSplitsDecreaseComposingShrinkingSpecialization Book:Man the Unknown Source: Man the Unknown
“We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.” FightingPayHellWorkersMinimumCeoControversyMinimum Wage Author:Iris DeMent
“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.” ShouldHumansMeanWholeDreamMightEarthFormScienceUniverseEnergyStarsRaceFictionViolenceEventsPossibilityResearchWorkersExperimentsIntenseCommandSubstanceHuman RaceTransformedEmployedLiberatedHydrogenUncontrollableAtomic EnergyHydrogen Atom Author:Francis William Aston
“In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In creating jobs that require less human effort, industrial technology has also been used to create jobs that require less human talent. In creating jobs that demand less of the body, industrial production has also tended to create jobs that give less to the body, in terms of opportunities to accrue knowledge on the production process.” GivingHumansBodyJobsUsedOpportunityProcessTermEffortRolesTechnologyTalentDemandCreatingLaborImportanceWorkersProductionsDiminishCreating Jobs Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.” IfsMayShowsHomeMotherNightGirlThreeHoursWalksFourDogTomorrowComputerWorkersDinnerMarathonGood NightGoodnightFamily Dinner Author:Mika Brzezinski
“Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.” SaidWorkersEmployersSkilled Workers Author:Dennis Hastert
“We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.” CountryPoliticalFightingForcePoliticianMembersApproachOppositesUnionsWorkersPlanningChosenMore MoneyUnderminingAflCio Author:James P. Hoffa
“I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.” IfsThinkingWantHardJobsActorsKnownHard WorkMy FriendsWorkersCompromiseHard Worker Author:Jeremy Irvine
“Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.” SocialPresidentPovertyEconomicSecurityWorkersSeniorSocial SecurityFranklinAmerican WorkersEconomic SecurityPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt Author:Steve Israel
“Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.” DoneOpportunitySupportMiddlePerformancesWorkersReviewsPerformersBest OpportunityPerformance Review Author:Kathryn Minshew
“The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.” BigsLinesCompanyMusicianWorkersCorporationsFactoriesRock And RollAssemblyBig CompaniesAssembly LineBig CorporationsFactory Workers Author:Ray Davies
“We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.” NeedsHelpingAgePastEnergyNationsGrowsLinesTechnologyDesignSourceDevelopmentMen And WomenScientistFoundationSellsEntrepreneurCleanClimateWorkersDevelopingDirtyFuelZeroTransitionFarmersEngineersPhasesVolunteerCarbonBusinessmanComponentsHammersNeed YouAssemblyNew TechnologyBuilderSkipDiplomatsClean EnergyAssembly LinePeace Corps Author:Barack Obama