#worker

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#baltimore #building #families #i #now

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#dream #dreamer #feel #know #life

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#believed #between #came #employer #expected

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#agreement #anyone #because #care #deeply

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #among #attack #britain #collectors

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#breaks #choice #companies #corporations #create

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#brother #chicago #city #come #daughter

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. ↗

— Robert Reich

#comprise #haven #inflation #median #percent

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. ↗

— Robert Reich

#business #cycle #get #hit #like

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#fewer #global #goods #history #human