#worker

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#articles #carried #commercial #currents #exchange

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. ↗

— John Conyers

#bankruptcy #care #causing #companies #force

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#benefits #economic #i #line #out

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#better #brothers #color #conditions #creed

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#being #blown #could #every #family

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#benefits #businesses #days #every #families

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#fairness #family #field #income #issue

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#actor #ant #done #guess #high

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#any #choosing #finished #franchise #own

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. ↗

— Iris Dement

#feel #help #help people #i #i feel