Workers Quotes - Page 20

• But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Hands, Corporations

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping them to understand this past.

  Doreen Virtue

  Past, Helping, Financial

  Interview with Lindsay Mcginty, www.fourcornersmagazine.com. December 21, 2010.

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• We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.

  Ted Cruz

  Florida, Immigration, Campaigns

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.

  David Roediger

  Keys, Color, Southern

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

  Guy Maddin

  Hard Work, People, Feel Good

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

  Simon Weston

  Determination, Serious, My Family

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

  Elton John

  Sex, Drug, Needles

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• Ted [Cruz], you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally. Ted Cruz supported a 500 percent increase in the number of H1B visas to guest workers that are allowed into this country. And Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Numbers, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.

  Garth Kravits

  Girl, Mother, Humble

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• NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, College, Jewels

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl, Mom, Lying

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

  John Shelby Spong

  Strong, Democracy, Unions

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mother, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We're the highest taxed nation in the world. Our middle class is just reeling from the taxes. And you know, if you think about it, the middle class and the workers of this country, who really built the country, they haven't had a raise in 12 years. They're making less now actually - to be even worse about it, they're making less now than they did 12 years ago.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.

  Gisela Stuart

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Mean, Rights, Tape

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.

  Frances O'Grady

  Thinking, Years, Europe

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• There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

  Lewis Schiff

  Moving, Organization, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If the workers don't keep themselves current - with some assistance and guidance from their employers - then the workers who are in the legacy roles will have to be removed. That's what's so difficult.

  Lewis Schiff

  Legacy, Roles, Guidance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Moral, Restaurants

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Creating, Healthy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dream, Dad, Good Life

  Source: time.com

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• Let's protect and empower workers who actually drive our economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Empowering, Economy, Protect

  Source: time.com

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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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