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American workers are first rate.
We must put American workers first.
The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.
U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.
The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.
The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.
It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.
We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
Stop demonizing American workers who don't belong to unions who are happy in their jobs.
Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
I agree with President Trump that our trade deals need to be renegotiated so they are more fair to American workers.
One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.
I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Enforcing trade deals is spot on. Acting in the interest of American workers is correct. But large-scale tariffs are a terrible idea.
We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.
American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.
The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.
American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.
I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.
Our trade negotiations should ensure that American workers are protected and that there are mechanisms in place to deal with other countries cheating.
If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?
When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.
American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.
In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.
During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.
Reforms are needed to stem the tide of outsourcing good jobs to other nations and to educate and train American workers to meet the challenges of the 21st-century world economy.
Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.
I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance policies that level the playing field for American workers and incentivize investing in jobs here at home.
America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.
It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.
Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and given the rights and protections they deserve. Still, we need to do more to protect all American workers.
Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
In Illinois, we've seen job losses from agreements like CAFTA and NAFTA. Those agreements didn't help American workers - and they haven't brought improvements to the lives of workers in other countries, either.
Free trade is an important component of our economy, but it also has to be fair. Too often, the needs of American workers are ignored while the interests of huge corporations are the focus of these trade deals.
Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.
For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses wages and harms the prospects of American workers.
The Trump administration is dedicated to helping build, certify, and defend the Made in America brand so that American products can reach every shore and stock every shelf and American workers can reap the benefits.
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.
The fact is, there are far more customers for American products outside of the U.S. than there are here at home. With open markets and a level playing field, American workers can out-compete workers anywhere in the world.