Employers Quotes - Page 8

• The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

  Saul Alinsky

  Capitalist Economy, Identity, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.27, Vintage

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• The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good.

  Henry Gantt

  Essentials, Today, Common

  Henry Laurence Gantt (1961). “Gantt on Management: Guidelines for Today's Executive”

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• The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:
  1st - When they are neglected in infancy
  
  2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.
  
  3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Class, Use

  "Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes". Book by Robert Owen, 1818.

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• Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Past, Men, Generations

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• If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

  Barack Obama

  Doctors, Choices, Plans

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• It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.

  Chris Bowen

  Benefits, Schemes, Parental

  "Josh Frydenberg confirms wife used two parental leave schemes - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2015.

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• We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program.

  Romano L. Mazzoli

  Immigration, Borders, Program

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• Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Whim, Employee

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• As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life.

  George Zimmerman

  Home, School, Media

  "Zimmerman speaks, raises funds on new website". www.cnn.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

  Reid Hoffman

  Helping, Creation, Employee

  "Reid Hoffman: How To Manage Talent In The Networked Age". Interview with Josh Bersin, www.forbes.com. August 30, 2014.

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• Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

  Neal Boortz

  Salary, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Art, People, Beck And Call

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

  Christina Romer

  Powerful, Offering, Competition

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• This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Impact, Wages, Minimum Wage

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• Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.

  Christopher Anderson

  Technology, Effort, Community

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Encouragement, Lying, Class

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Fire, Challenges, Trying

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 213), 1975.

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• Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Thinking, Guy, Tough

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.

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• But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Successful, Organization, Needs

  YouTube Chanel "CBC"/ "Retrobites: Jimmy Hoffa (1960) | CBC", www.youtube.com. December 11, 2008.

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• I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Night, Men, News

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?

  John Ralston Saul

  Office, Public Service, Accepting

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Attachment

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Equal Pay, Employment, Reaching

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• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Men, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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