Quotes About Labor

If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.

My parents had nothing - just basic wages for all their hard work.

If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages.

When union membership goes down, so do wages.

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

If we open the borders tomorrow there would be 50 million people who came here, all good people, mostly good people. But they'd all want jobs. They'd drive wages down. Not because they intend to, that's not what they're coming for, but that would be the result.

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

Working Holiday' goes out to those earning their pay and a half: from retail employees at the mall and the kids selling popcorn at the movies, to the waiters at Chinese restaurants!

I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

Wal-Mart creates entry level jobs for people who don't have a lot of skills; those jobs don't pay a lot.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Work is my best friend.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

If we put people to work and they are busy, we will have less crime.

We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.