Quotes About Wage

From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.

When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.

You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living wage, to make sure that the lowest paid get the biggest increase in pay.

Unfortunately, Democrats don't want to wage a war on poverty or improve program integrity; they prefer talking points.

When I moved to London I couldn't afford to rent anywhere. So I housesat for a friend of my mum and dad's - and had to look after her sickly cat. That was the only way I could survive on a meagre intern wage.

I'm of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox.

Retail employees are the underdogs or 'Rudy' of the work force. They start off at the bottom trying to gain experience, but rarely expect a good wage, a good experience or any career mobility. We need to change that mindset.

Making sure there are good jobs that pay a decent wage in every part of the country means backing hi-tech companies, modern manufacturing, Britain's scientists and creative industries - not spending billions of pounds reopening coal mines or renationalising huge swaths of the economy.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable. I've talked to my constituents over the years, and child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working.

In my view, nothing would do more to reduce violence in American cities than genuine full employment - a job at a decent wage for every person who wants to work. Numerous studies have shown that violence increases with unemployment.

President Trump has doubled the Child Tax Credit and added thousands back into the average Americans' paycheck through tax cuts and wage growth.

I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets records.

Too many American families go bankrupt from healthcare expenses, and low wage workers have to hold two or three jobs just to make ends meet, which leaves many young children without any hope of having a pre-K education - the most important start to a good education and a path out of poverty.

Building a police culture that reflects the professionalism of our best officers will require that we pay a decent wage. Treating every American as truly equal in the eyes of the law will require that we teach officers to understand different cultures and social conditions and to recognize the implicit biases we all carry.

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.

We've led the way in the $15 minimum wage.

Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation - voters don't care much. They blame immigrants. It's easier to get mad at a person from Macedonia or Mexico, taking your job than it is to get mad at a piece of technology from Silicon Valley.

The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

Francis.… You are St Mary's. You and no other. It sounds trite, but it is precisely true. I don't know your secret. There is no spiritual bond between you and your company: no common faith, no rites, no rules of chivalry. How is it done?' 'Charm of personality,' said Lymond. 'Allied to a generous wage scale.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en trouvent plus dès que leur travail cesse d'agrandir le capital. Les ouvriers, contraints de se vendre au jour le jour, sont une marchandise comme tout autre article de commerce ; ils subissent, par conséquent, toutes les vicissitudes de la concurrence, toutes fluctuations du marché.

también el proletariado, esa clase obrera moderna que sólo puede vivir encontrando trabajo y que sólo encuentra trabajo en la medida en que éste alimenta a incremento el capital. El obrero, obligado a venderse a trozos, es una mercancía como otra cualquiera, sujeta, por tanto, a todos los cambios y modalidades de la concurrencia, a todas las fluctuaciones del mercado.

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