Quotes About Wages

This rare expertise was hard to duplicate, making the maestre sought-after employees who commanded higher wages than male laborers.

the president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.

Archons manipulate people to create situations that are ideal for creating sources of food for themselves, situations such as war, terrorism, child sexual abuse, political confrontations, drug addiction, high taxation, low wages, the cult of the self, the dehumanization of worker, the immorality of the super-rich and so forth.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

It's not convenient," said Scrooge, "and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound?" The clerk smiled faintly. "And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no

The Ward Line paid the lowest possible wages and drove the crew as hard as it could. Ordinary seamen earned $35 a month; firemen, $52; quartermasters, $55; engine-room oilers, $60.

The ship's officers were in a substantially higher bracket. First Officer Warms earned $180 a month; Captain Wilmott, the princely sum of $300 a month. Chief Engineer Eban Abbott's paycheck was $220 a month. For that salary Abbott was expected to keep the engines running smoothly, and play his part in entertaining the passengers, particularly the women on board.

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

Fairness is not just about getting equal pay for equal work (though it is that too!) - it's about taking bold and challenging steps to raise incomes and protect those with little or no economic power.

guaranteed jobs and decent wages

But for the latter group, the aggrieved "Middle Americans," the experience has been a bummer all around. All they have to show for their Republican loyalty are lower wages, more dangerous jobs, dirtier air, a new overlord class that comports itself like King Farouk—and, of course, a crap culture whose moral free fall continues without significant interference from the grandstanding Christers whom they send triumphantly back to Washington every couple of years.

It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.