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Quotes About Employment

There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
~ Phoebe Tonkin
Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.
~ Tae Yoo
I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
~ Polly Toynbee
I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.
~ Will Poulter
The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their conduct. Everything they did was for the sake of being employed by the ruler.
~ Han Fei
When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.
~ Tim Ryan
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
~ Rose Schneiderman
Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
~ Tony Danza
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
~ Leon Jouhaux
In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.
~ Cynthia Dill
I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.
~ Michael Moore
Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.
~ Bill Dedman
Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.
~ Michael Gove
We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
~ Viktor Orban
If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
~ Kevin O'Leary
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
~ Hilda Solis
For the unions, it is simple. There are no jobs on a dead planet.
~ Sharan Burrow
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
~ Scott Walker
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.
~ Stephen F. Lynch
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
~ Jacques Delors
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
~ Barbara Castle
We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.
~ Nikki Haley