#workers

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

#joint #language #manual #ought #poets

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#costs #freeze #give #imagine #industrialists

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe. ↗

— Ted Rall

#american workers #bosses #loathe #point #pretty

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name. ↗

— Carl Rakosi

#few #foreign #get #i #job

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#courage #every #fight #his #i

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#controlled #corporation #farmers #golden #i

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