Quotes About Rights

T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.

Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour.

Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.

In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we're going to have to address the treatment of pregnant employees more systemically. The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would better protect against the discrimination pregnant job seekers face.

I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.

The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

My job is to represent working people.

We came to see the benefits for working people of common employment rights, guaranteed throughout the EU to prevent a race to the bottom. We worked together in practical ways to make cleaner beaches, protect the environment and ensure consumer rights.

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.

I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.

Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.

Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.

We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country's DNA.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.