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Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
One of my favorite memes is one with Steve Carell about workers, and another one I really like is from 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.'
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.
After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.
I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.
America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.
Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.
We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.
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.
Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.
The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.
I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.
We must do better for our people by implementing a robust jobs agenda that prioritizes workers - not out-of-state corporations and CEOs.
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
I do not owe hundreds of millions of potential foreign workers from around the world an obligation. I owe Singaporeans a responsibility.
Like Moscow, I wish to lay the foundation of the Chinese Republic deeply in the minds of the young generation - the workers of tomorrow.
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.
We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods.
Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.