Quotes About Workers

When people scratch their heads and wonder how it can be that the stock market is booming and executive compensation is at an all-time high but the overall economy is less dynamic and workers are not benefiting, look no further than the trillions of dollars in stock buybacks.

A system that is amoral and imbecilic enough to compel selling Amazon's stock because it invested in protecting its workers during a pandemic is not one that we should trust to steward the overall health and well-being of our economy.

proletariat.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Nous sommes les occupants de cet espace et de ce temps. Nous sommes les ouvriers, manÅ"uvres, ingénieurs, d'une usine sans porte.

Under the claim of "religious freedom"—the cover for a gigantic new fictional creature called "corporate conscience"—the rights of workers could be given short shrift once again. [More on this in chapter 8.]

The capitalist organization of production must now be dissolved. Workers must become their own directors, receiving and distributing the surpluses they produce. They must become the collective decision-makers in productive enterprises, no longer the directed wage and salary receivers.

Unlike workers, drones are universally accepted into all colonies at almost any time.

Whether he'll follow some gaudy, hysterical leader who'll promise rashly to fill the void in him, or whether he'll come to an understanding with the millions of his kindred fellow workers under trade-union or revolutionary guidance depends upon the future drift of events in America. But

A library is the only place you can go--from cradle to grave--that is free, safe, democratic and no one will try to flog you anything. You don't have to part with a penny to travel the world. It's the heartbeat of a community, offering precious resources to people in need. It's a place just to be, to dream, and to escape -- with books. And what's more precious than that? So here's to all library workers. We need you.

To blame were two young radicals, a country bumpkin named Mao Tse-tung and a disillusioned intellectual by the name of Zhou En Lai. These two had had the nerve to ask the owners of the mills to install safety devices so that the children and old people who worked long hours would no longer in their weariness lose fingers and even hands in the machinery.

Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast.

Lenin también ha anunciado una jornada de ocho horas para los trabajadores y educación universal y gratuita para sus hijos.

La classe ouvrière est beaucoup plus nombreuse que la classe dirigeante, et plus forte. Ces gens là dépendent entièrement de nous. C'est nous qui produisons leur nourriture, qui construisons leurs maisons, qui fabriquons leurs vêtements. Sans nous, ils sont morts. Ils ne peuvent pas se permettre n'importe quoi, sauf si nous les laissons faire. N'oublie jamais ça.

Alertés par le bruit des chevaux, les ouvriers relevèrent les yeux. Apercevant les hommes en armes, ils demeurèrent au fond de la carrière. Les ouvriers n'étaient jamais pressés d'entrer en contact avec les forces armées du seigneur.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

The Soviet propaganda apparatus continued to crank out shrill, contorted documents attempting to convince whoever was listening that Finland was the real aggressor, that the Kuusinen government was legitimate, and the Mannerheim/Tanner/Ryti regime was enslaving the workers, etc.

education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth of the matter is that regardless of institutional education level, workers around the world can be adequately trained on the job for high productivity.

I had left the Zionist movement. I felt that we had to assimilate and that we belonged with the workers, not with the well-to-do upper crust; that we had to fight for a better society.

He hasn't reneged on Catholicism entirely. Pope Francis he thinks impressive: "A remarkable guy. A breath of fresh air." Catholic social teaching is still in his head, along with the "golden rule" every boy was taught at Xavier: "It was at the heart of the Jesuit call to be a 'man for others.' And I have spent my working life, both representing workers and as parliamentarian, trying to measure up to this standard of compassion and empathy.

It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight.