#worker

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#another #between #competing #confederation #countries

I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#because #big #big business #bring #business

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. ↗

— Steve Israel

#finance #functions #generation #help #into

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #better #came #conditions #disadvantage

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers. ↗

— John Doolittle

#businesses #confidence #hire #more #now

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#i see #journalism #journalists #laborers #literature

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#before #company #father #going #got

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#costs #coworkers #employ #flight #i

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina. ↗

— Al Lewis

#carolina #down #food #i #north