Workers Rights Quotes

• Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Rights, Focus, Development

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Rights, Labor Laws

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• Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

  Sherrod Brown

  Rights, Government, Safety

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• We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.

  John Caudwell

  Jobs, Believe, Rights

  "Gruff and tough operator rings off with a billion" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fighting, Class, Organization

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

  Justin Sane

  Rights, People, Political

  "Anti-Flag’s General Strike Is a Soundtrack for Occupied America". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.

  John Sweeney

  Country, Real, Hard Work

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• Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

  Tom Morello

  Country, Song, Struggle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.

  Gisela Stuart

  Jobs, Rights, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement.

  Chris Larson

  Retirement, Rights, Decision

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• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, People, African American

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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