Quotes About Labor

There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.

I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.

I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so that we're not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor.

I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.

Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

We must put American workers first.

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.

Americans like workers, people who slog. I love working.

We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.

Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.

Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

Countries that want to achieve sustainable growth must cater for diverse forms of work and consider the rights of all workers.

As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

There's a lot more blue-collar workers out there than the so-called elites.