Quotes About Employment

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

The most important aspect of my signing with the WFL was not to demean or undermine the National Football League, but rather to make professional football a form of employment where management recognizes its workers as individuals capable of communicating on an intelligent level.

I agree with President Trump that our trade deals need to be renegotiated so they are more fair to American workers.

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for the higher-paid skilled workers they need.

U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.

The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.

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

I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

Michael Bennet can't possibly understand the impact of flooding our job market with workers that aren't citizens of this country, and when we fight, they call us racist. When did wanting to feed your family become racist?

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.

Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.

More efficient workers are always in an employer's best interest.

In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.

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.

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.

When illegal labor is used, that almost always depresses wages paid to all workers. The illegal workers can be exploited, and they will usually accept lower wages. As a result, all workers in the plant, including U.S. citizens, will see their wages go down.

Let's not kid ourselves about just how cheap offshore labor really is. We not only pay substantially less per hour: we also avoid the costs we would incur if these workers immigrated here. We don't pay for their medical expenses when they show up in the emergency room without insurance.

Allowing workers' compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.

Liberals complain that coal activity isn't a major producer of jobs because the industry is producing a lot more coal with a lot fewer workers. That is absolutely true. Ladies and gentlemen, that is called productivity.