#workers

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#borders #burma #china #clearly #economy

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. ↗

— John Sweeney

#bush #bush administration #legislation #opposed #overtime

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#countries #exploited #interests #oppressed #same

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#egg #freedom #more #nest #nest egg

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#children #come #days #defending #easy

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. ↗

— James Larkin

#arrangement #carried #degree #employers #gain

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alien #america #bulwark #conscious #decent

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#committee #considered #everywhere #high #highest

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill. ↗

— Joe Baca

#action #america #bill #bring #businesses