#workers

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


John Sweeney


#bush #bush administration #legislation #opposed #overtime

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.


Wanda Sykes


#government #government workers #hard #just #most

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.


Michael Symon


#enjoy #family #feeling #figure #holidays

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.


Harvey S. Firestone


#back #being #door #factory #front

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.


James P. Hoffa


#business #chosen #country #even #fight

I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.


Sam Langley


#cozy-mystery #romantic-suspense #women-s-fiction #love

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

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

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.


Andy Stern


#change #country #enough #group #having