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I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
[Hillary] Clinton wants to raise taxes, raise wages and she wants to do things like put caps on drug prices.
Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.
As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.
To be realistic, the big Dutch clubs cannot afford me. That's not because of my wages; it's the transfer fee.
That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.
Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.
Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.
If people expect high inflation and raise wages to reflect the high inflation, then it becomes self-fulfilling.
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.
Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.
Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.
What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.
Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
I don't care about wages or fees, I just want to improve my football, which is a side to me that the fans aren't aware of.
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.
No matter what the figures are in the workplace in terms of wages, you either feel a valued member of your staff, or you don't.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.