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Quotes About Wage

Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.
~ Denis Norden
I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.
~ Rashida Jones
I believe in equal pay for equal work. Gender, race, skin colour, or ethnicity should not be the parameters to hire someone or to decide how much they should be paid.
~ Huma Qureshi
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
~ Gloria Steinem
With great prescience he warned of the need to develop common bargaining goals for autoworkers in all auto-producing nations as a means of counteracting global wage competition, and recommended the country turn its attention to repairing bridges, roads, and other infrastructures.
~ Philip Dray
Properly speaking, the liberal arts receive an honorarium, while servile work receives a wage.
~ Josef Pieper
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~ Adolf Hitler
The coming Revolution can render no greater service to humanity than to make the wage system, in all its forms, an impossibility, and to render Communism, which is the negation of wage-slavery, the only possible solution.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
The minimum wage should be a living wage.
~ Jon Ossoff
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
~ John F. Kerry
Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.
~ Phil Murphy
Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
~ Joe Biden
There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.
~ Alex Tabarrok
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.
~ Steven Rattner
Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage.
~ Alex Padilla
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
~ Benjamin Todd Jealous
It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years.
~ Rishi Sunak
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
~ James P. Hoffa
How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour.
~ Emily Oster
The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
~ Sherrod Brown
I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'
~ Tilman J. Fertitta
In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
~ John L. Lewis
Banding together and leveraging collective strength is an important part of the American story, and to fight for a livable wage, for adequate safety measures, and for better benefits and conditions on the job, workers have to be able to organize.
~ Raphael Warnock