Quotes About Labor

If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.

The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

Obviously, we want people to be paid a wage that could help make ends meet, but when you increase artificially the cost of labor to do a job, then oftentimes, those jobs will just go away.

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

Wage violations are tantamount to theft.

Although Caterpillar has fought vigorously against writing guaranteed pay increases into its contracts - and won, every time - it does offer market-based wage increases. It has also given quarterly bonuses to workers.

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.