Quotes About Workers

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

Joining a union makes it more powerful and in turn strengthens the rights of all workers.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

We must do better for our people by implementing a robust jobs agenda that prioritizes workers - not out-of-state corporations and CEOs.

We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will in Mississippi.

We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up with organizations where many high-priced knowledge workers and managers are spending as much as a quarter of their time being their own overhead.

You can no more expect her to work without meaningful challenge than you could expect her to work without salary. The nearly equal status of challenge and pay is unique to knowledge workers. They are different from the blue-collar workers that our fathers managed a generation ago. The easy, dumb error of managing knowledge workers is to forget that they are different and assume that basic rules developed on factory floors a century ago apply to them.

Worker density (say, workers per thousand square feet) is inversely proportional to dedicated space per person.

The missed schedule indicts the planners, not the workers. Even if the workers are utterly incompetent, a plan that takes careful note of their inadequacies can help to minimize the damage. A plan that takes no account of realities is not just useless but dangerous.

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it's good for business. Anxiety will drive us back into our comfort blankets of credit-card shopping and bad food, so the system deliberately produces anxiety while simultaneously promising to take it away.

But the hope within our faith is that we can draw meaning out of what is meaningless, through the theopraxis of learning to love one another better–and that, in the global scheme of things, means living for the good of everyone, whether they be Foxconn workers or Syrian asylum seekers–or friends who are suffering.

Rather than organize the workers and the factories, the peasants and the fields and the farms, they would organize the intellectuals and the academy, the artists and the media and the film industry. These would be the conveyor belts to deliver the fundamental transformation.

Most obviously, the federal minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, has fallen by a third over the past half century, even as worker productivity has risen 150 percent.

The decline of unions, which covered a quarter of private-sector workers in 1973 but only 6 percent now, may not be as obviously political. But other countries haven't seen the same kind of decline. Canada is as unionized now as the U.S. was in 1973; in the Nordic nations unions cover two-thirds of the work force. What made America exceptional was a political environment deeply hostile to labor organizing and friendly toward union-busting employers.

But it got worse and worse." He sighed. "Politics!" "Ours or yours?" "Both! Our government is bad, yours—well, you know the talk. 'Mexicans are criminals and rapists.' And really, I was working hard, and all the Mexicans I knew were good workers.

sweatshops in Juárez.

its workforce composed of assembly-line workers as well as highly educated graduates of the city's sixteen universities and institutes of technology.

a city of poor housing and low spirits, of people living in the hovels Mexicans call jacales—workers' quarters, like plantation housing—and that none of the workers in the Oster factory had in their shack one of the coffee machines they toiled to make.

La educación y las habilidades de los trabajadores son lo que genera el conocimiento científico sobre el que se construye nuestro progreso y lo que permite la adaptación y adopción de estas tecnologías en varias líneas de negocio.

At 3:14 A.M. I am awakened by a loud crashing sound, caused by workers from the city's crack Department of Making Loud Crashing Sounds during the Night, who are just outside my window, breaking in a new taxicab by dropping it repeatedly from a 75-foot crane. Lying in bed listening to them, I can hardly wait for …