Workers Quotes - Page 25

• We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Class, Capitalist

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• Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

  Joseph Stalin

  Cities, Organization, People

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• I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, America, World

  Source: genius.com

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• Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Car, Creative

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Hurt, Jobs

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Home, Skills

  Source: www.mott.org

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• We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Powerful, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, School, Goal

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

  Donald Trump

  Essentials, Regulation, Hiring

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Bored, Lines

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

  Van Jones

  White, People, Say Anything

  Source: pen.org

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• Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Attitude, Dread, Company

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.

  Bill Capodagli

  Two, Answers, Habit

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The results of "engaged" companies vs "disengaged" companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.

  Bill Capodagli

  Coworker, Results, Produce

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• I play Edward G. Robinson [in Trumbo], who was a close friend and a co-worker of Dalton's [Trumbo]. They worked together on at least one or two screenplays. A lot of these stories take famous people and show you who they are behind the scenes, which is kind of fun. One of the things about getting to play Edward G. Robinson was learning who the man was away from his movie-star exterior.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Stars, Fun, Men

  Source: nerdist.com

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• I was seeing indoor workers as opposed to streetwalkers and from what I hear, drug use is much more prevalent among streetwalkers then it is with girls who are escorting.

  Chester Brown

  Girl, Drug Use, Escorting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He was an alcoholic and a physical abuser. My mother lived through that tyranny and made her living as a domestic worker. She was uneducated but she brought high principles and decent values into our existence, and she set lofty goals for herself and for her children. We were forever inspired by her strength and by her resistance to racism and to fascism.

  Harry Belafonte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.

  Nina Turner

  Should Have, Wages, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work harder and longer in America and still people's wages are not keeping up with that.

  Nina Turner

  Hard Work, America, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go up. If we don't increase membership - and membership in labor unions is going down because of the attacks against organized labor - it's something every single American, whether they're officially in a union or not, should be concerned about. It's a spiral. It's a weakening of the middle class and our economy can't sustain that.

  Nina Turner

  Class, Long, Wages

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.

  Nina Turner

  Home, Winning, Class

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

  Nina Turner

  Community, Records, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.

  Nina Turner

  Fun, Good Life, Quality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians, but to push companies to do right by their workers. They wouldn't even have successful companies without their workers. They are the glue that keeps things together. How, in the 21st century, we have mega-corporations that have lost sight of that boggles my mind.

  Nina Turner

  Successful, Sight, Mind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  School, America, Earth

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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