#workers

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#been #challenged #conflicts #denied #faith

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#between #faces #gap #large #larger

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. ↗

— Karl Marx

#lose #nothing #unite #workers #world

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. ↗

— Karl Marx

#lose #nothing #their #unite #worker

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. ↗

— Karl Marx

#application #competition #division #does #extend

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#ask #both #clearly #employers #fairness

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#economy #organisations #other #possible #solution