Quotes About Wages

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

We can't hire gentlemen to serve as policemen," Williams acknowledged, "for $1.25 a day.

Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965—about 24 percent lower. That job at Sears allowed my mother to eke out a

Nobody who works full time deserves to live in poverty.

Chivalry: It's treating a woman politely As long as she isn't a fright: It's guarding the girls who act rightly, If you can be judge of what's right; It's being—not just, but so pleasant; It's tipping while wages are low; It's making a beautiful present, And failing to pay what you owe.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

I know what a pound is, and I earn my £12 an hour, and that's great.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

I've never had a huge contract.

What matters to every family in the country is that the cost of living is controlled.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

Unwilling to accept the idea of a class struggle, he was nonetheless aware of the deteriorating condition of labor, and so he embraced a protective tariff, anathema to the liberals, as a way to protect wages.

The city's West Side was a gigantic slum, containing perhaps 60,000 residents, who were paid, Gunther says, "probably the lowest wages in the United States"—for pecan shellers (San Antonio was the "Pecan Capital of the World") an average of $1.75 per week.

As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for the world is predicated upon the principle of randomness.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

In a book published at the time, a lace manufacturer admitted that he expected his workers to turn a few tricks on the side to make up for his not paying them a living wage. Soon lace, including crocheted lace, began to be seen as morally tainted—it's made by prostitutes! As Donna Kooler suggests in The Encyclopedia of Crochet, this may even explain how the word "hooker" came to have such wayward connotations.

The wage controls ended, but benefits remained. In most cases, benefit

Why is there a struggle between capital and labor?

A job? Would I be able to keep a cut of the money?