Quotes About Workers

The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do good and do well, too.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

Luddites broke hundreds of machines and shut down dozens of factories. To the poorest factory workers, Luddites were heroes!

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers' revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

The music swells and I recognize the brilliance of it. As the notes overlap, they complement one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony. It was this sound then, thanks to Rue, that sent the orchard workers of District 11 home each night. Does someone start it at quitting time, I wonder, now that she is dead?

as there is a close relationship between one's mental attitude and one's physical environment. The effects of environment so vitally influence those who work in factories, stores and offices, that employers are gradually realizing the importance of creating an environment that inspires and encourages the workers.

Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

The post office, or any world of work, is only one institutionalised system of control that is designed to beat people, to condition them into accepting that humiliation and failure is the norm. Those who do not rebel against this lose any ability to think for themselves. The workers are robbed of power whilst the bosses have only a small amount of it and can only use it arbitrarily, which is to say, pointlessly.

Liking the courtly magnificence of Chan Chan, they hauled away what they could and, more important, forced the city's gold, silver, and gem workers to accompany them to Qosqo. They were instructed to transform the city into a new Chan Chan, only more impressive. Seven decades later, when Pizarro held his victory celebration in Qosqo, it was equal in grandeur to any city in Europe.

The authors propose "a New Deal for globalization—one thatlinks engagement with the world economy to a substantial redistribution of income." Remember, this isn't hippy talk. These are the capitalists who see angry workers with pitchforks loitering outside the gates of a very profitable factory, and they are making a very pragmatic calculation: Throw these people some food (and maybe some movie tickets and beer) before we all end up worse off

Technology displaces workers in the short run but does not lead to mass unemployment in the long run.

Prisons are prototypes for the future, an example of the disempowerment and exploitation corporations seek to inflict on all workers.

For many workers, Buy America policies can mean the difference between going to work on Monday morning and facing a furlough because of a furnace closure.

Attempting to control simultaneously for part-time versus full-time employment and for the effect of children and domestic responsibilities, another study found "that the gender pay gap is 5 percent for part-time workers age 21–35 without children, under 3 percent for full-time workers age 21–35 without children, and that there is no pay gap for full-time workers age 21–35 living alone.

Eu sou um capitalista bem-sucedido, mas estou cansado de ouvir que pessoas como eu criam empregos. Há apenas uma coisa que cria empregos, e são os clientes. E temos estado a tramar os trabalhadores há tanto tempo que eles não se podem dar ao luxo de ser nossos clientes. - Nick Hanauer