Quotes About Workers

Workers' rights must be respected.

Our health care workers are the heroes of the Covid-19 response.

the growth of trade unions into mighty business enterprises.

For vocational workers, their pay should reflect their skills and difficulty of labour. To be skilled in a craft should be accepted as an alternative path.

Slaughterhouse workers have the highest injury rate of any job —27 percent annually —and receive low pay to kill as many as 2,050 cattle a shift.)

On the contrary, all experience shows that revolutionaries come from those who are economically independent, not from factory workers. Very few revolutionary leaders have done manual work, and those who did soon abandoned it for political activities. The factory worker wants higher wages and better conditions, not a revolution. It is the man on his own who wants to remake society, and moreover he can happily defy those in power without economic risk.

In the South, workers would be tittyweeping that someone had broken the "rules" by giving away government property. But here, discipline reigns

Il compito dello Stato nei confronti del capitale era perciò semplice e chiaro: esso doveva badare a che restasse il servitore dello Stato e non cercasse di diventare il padrone della Nazione. Questa posizione correva perciò lungo due direzioni: conservazione di un'economia nazionale ed indipendente da una parte, assicurazione dei diritti sociali degli operai dall'altra

I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.

What it adds up to is stunning: Worker wages could have been 60 percent higher today, if we had kept health care costs in check. Another way to say it is: American workers will never see another pay raise if health care costs keep siphoning off the money.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

The Unions: the people who brought you the weekend. And capped working hours. And employment rights and protections. And fair wages. And pensions. And ended child labour. What a bunch of greedy bastards.

We do not want to rob any one of his coat, but we wish to give to the workers all those things the lack of which makes them fall an easy prey to the exploiter, and we will do our utmost that none shall lack aught, that not a single man shall be forced to sell the strength of his right arm to obtain a bare subsistence for himself and his babes.

Built up by the middle classes to hold their own against royalty, sanctioning, and, at the same time strengthening, their sway over the workers, parliamentary rule is pre-eminently a middle-class rule. The upholders of this system have never seriously maintained that a parliament or a municipal council represent a nation or a city.

Enterprise takes no thought for the needs of the community. Its only aim is to increase the gains of the speculator. Hence the constant fluctuations of trade, the periodical industrial crises, each of which throws scores of thousands of workers on the streets.

Whence will the revolution come? How will it announce its coming? No one can answer these questions. The future is hidden. But those who watch and think do not misinterpret the signs: workers and exploiters, revolutionists and conservatives, thinkers and men of action, all feel that a revolution is at our doors.

To Engineers And you, young engineer, who dream of bettering the lot of the workers by applying the inventions of science to industry, what a sad disenchantment, what deceptions await you. You

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.

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

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.

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.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.