Quotes About Employment

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.

Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.

You look at right-to-work states: a lot of car companies are relocating down to the South so they don't have to deal with the unions or the legacy cost or any of those things, and that's what manufacturing's done.

Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.

Republicans are consistently right-to-work and they want to eliminate unions or destroy the union way of life.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.

In an age of considerable bureaucratic burdens, a business knowing immediately that someone who has the relevant training is eligible to work in the United Kingdom is an important convenience and helps keep costs down.

Toyota has 10 plants in the United States... and employs more than 130,000 Americans. If I were Mr. Trump, I'd treat them with more respect.

It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.