Workers' disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
All workers want is a fair shake.
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.
It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.
My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.
We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.
As Washington prospers, workers suffer.
Individuals with significant care needs increasingly receive services in their homes rather than in institutional settings. And correspondingly, residential care increasingly is provided by professionals employed by third-party agencies rather than by workers hired directly by care recipients and their families.
Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it's a formula for recruiting and retaining good workers.
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.
Most guys are either big talkers or big workers.
I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.
