Quotes About Workers

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

If you retired in 1960, you could expect to get back seven times more in benefits than you paid in Social Security taxes, and more if you were a low-income worker, as long as you made it to age 78 for men and 81 for women. As recently as 1985, workers at every income level could retire and expect to get more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn't do quite as well as their parents and grandparents. Not anymore.

you look closely at so-called popular liberation movements, you'll find that they're seldom started by the peasants or workers they're supposed to benefit. These armed struggles may gradually build wider support—but in almost every case, they're launched by students or other intellectuals in the name of the people.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

First and foremost, well over half of all workers globally, 90 per cent in developing countries and 67 per cent in emerging economies, are informally employed. It is only in developed countries that most workers (82 per cent) are formally employed (ILO 2018a). As

Obviously Moses indicates by this comment that the workers of the Law would be precisely the people who do not keep the Commandments of God, for he is certain that this grace is not given to all.

If what is visible to you is obscure to you, how can you comprehend what is invisible? If deeds of truth visible in the world are difficult for you to accomplish, how will you accomplish things of the exalted majesty and fullness, which are invisible?5 How will you be called workers? You are beginners and have not attained the greatness of perfection.

It took organized labor and the collective action of workers to make full-time employment in the semi-automated world of industrial manufacturing inhabitable. Unfortunately, the valorization and validation of full-time employment also made it easier for corporate interests to position piecework and, later, other forms of temporary or contract labor as expendable, that is, work that did not warrant protections.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

think tank New American Economy estimates that though 8 million undocumented workers contributed about $13 billion in payroll taxes in 2016, they generally cannot claim Social Security benefits.

No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!

From the early 1900s coffee, a drink for every day, became a commonplace and Japanese beverage. The expansion of the world's coffee industries, I will argue, was in its early days closely related to the rise of coffee drinking in Japan. Japanese coffee workers in Brazil, in concert with the aspirations of the Brazilian coffee industries, made Japan a world-beating destination for beans and taste.