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Quotes About Workers

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
~ David Korten
The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
~ Clara Zetkin
When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
~ James Larkin
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
~ Amity Shlaes
The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.
~ David Rolf
I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.
~ John Caudwell
Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
~ Richard Neal
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
~ Wanda Sykes
Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.
~ Ronald Reagan
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
~ Upton Sinclair
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
~ Spencer Bachus
We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.
~ Cesar Chavez
During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia
~ Steven Magee
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
~ Karl Marx
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
~ James P. Cannon
Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.
~ Mark Price
Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?
~ Emma Goldman
Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.
~ Ella Reeve Bloor
Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!
~ Donald Trump
Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.
~ Dhirubhai Ambani
great remote workers are simply great workers. They exhibit the two key qualities, as Joel Spolsky labeled them in his "Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing":fn1 Smart, and Gets Things Done.
~ Jason Fried