Worker Struggles Quotes

Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.

There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose, if I wanted to be fair, I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.But so am I working harder, that I can tell you.

The most urgent issue facing American workers today is not the glass ceiling. It is the sinking floor.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911.

As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.