I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.
Angus Deaton
ThinkWorkersWagesBeenI Think
In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
Naoto Kan
AgeAgingWillDifficultWorkers
America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.
John Sweeney
AmericaVoteDeserveCleanWorkers
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx
WorldLoseChainsNothingWorkers
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.
Stephen F. Lynch
GlobalizationMoreWorkersTrade
One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
Fareed Zakaria
GreatAmericanAmericaWillWorkers
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
Tom Peters
RevolutionWorkplaceWorkersFinally
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
Caitlin Flanagan
WorkMotherFarmCaliforniaWorkers
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Robert Wyatt
NaturePeopleWorkersInfluences
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.
Michelle Alexander
ColorsGlobalizationHardWorkers
I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.
Joshua Oppenheimer
CommunityMyselfOutWorkersFilm
Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
Donella Meadows
FutureResponsibilityPresentWorkers
Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.
Corey Lewandowski
DayLongElectionWorkersHoursPut
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
Bobbie Ann Mason
WarColdPollutionCold WarWorkers
Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.'
Alissa Quart
WorkLoveLaborWhyNeedWorkers
I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.
Susanna Moore
FilipinoWorkersBettingCamps
T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.
Sharan Burrow
FearCompanyRepresentationWorkers
The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.
Tim Ryan
BluePeopleProudCountryWorkers
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.
Noam Chomsky
ResponsibilityMoneyPlantWorkers
The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.
Martha Roby
BusinessEnergyCostWorkersHiring
And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
Kenneth Blackwell
FreeProudElectionFairWorkers
Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.
Jan C. Ting
FutureTechnologyWillNeedWorkers
All workers want is a fair shake.
James P. Hoffa
WantFairWorkersShakeFair Shake
If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.
James Forrestal
WorldEatUpWorkersJapanChannels
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