Quotes About Labor

example, if a fast-food restaurant that employs twenty individuals is required to pay some or all of them close to 30 percent more per hour, it must account for those dollars somewhere. The restaurant can try to sell more food, it can increase the cost of food, it can cut the hours of its employees, it can hire fewer workers, or it can lay off those currently employed.

The number of unemployed citizens "without a high school diploma increased by 18.7 percent while the number of unemployed foreign-born persons decreased by 24.8 percent."37 Despite the supposed economic recovery "following the Great Recession, employers continued to favor illegal alien labor despite millions of less-educated Americans who were unemployed.

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death," the priest said. "Just a different choice of weapons.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

The main goal of organizing people is to make them laborers.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.