Workers Quotes - Page 20

• The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.

  Sadiq Khan

  Boss, Going Out, Worst

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Mean, Rights, Tape

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.

  Frances O'Grady

  Thinking, Years, Europe

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• Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Working Conditions, Fast Food

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

  Lewis Schiff

  Moving, Organization, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If the workers don't keep themselves current - with some assistance and guidance from their employers - then the workers who are in the legacy roles will have to be removed. That's what's so difficult.

  Lewis Schiff

  Legacy, Roles, Guidance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Lonely, Responsibility

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Senior, Believe, School

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.

  Catherine Wilson

  Clever, Sacrifice, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Believe, Addiction, Drug

  Source: sojo.net

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• I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Moral, Restaurants

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to people who are sometimes buried in their own lives or are subjected to the bullshit that clinic workers are subjected to every day.

  Lizz Winstead

  Opportunity, Unique, Bullshit

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Creating, Healthy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dream, Dad, Good Life

  Source: time.com

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• I believe corporations that benefit from everything America has to offer should feel (ph) some sense of responsibility, not just to their biggest shareholders, but to their workers, to their customers, to their communities and, yes, to our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: time.com

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• With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Choices, Competition

  Source: time.com

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• Let's protect and empower workers who actually drive our economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Empowering, Economy, Protect

  Source: time.com

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• We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.

  Hillary Clinton

  America

  Source: time.com

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• We're going to do everything we can to make sure workers are treated like assets, not costs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cost, Assets, Treated

  Hillary Clinton's Remarks From a Rally in Toledo, Ohio, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.

  Tamara Keith

  Mean, Class, Long

  "Clinton, Trump Present Starkly Different Messages On The Middle Class". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 3, 2016.

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• We can get America moving again, put on top of that the kind of trade deals that'll put the American worker first, and you've got a prescription for real growth.

  Mike Pence

  Real, Moving, America

  Source: www.politico.com

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• This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.

  Mike Pence

  War, Struggle, Obamacare

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.

  John Kao

  Team, Creativity, People

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Past, Competition

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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