The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
I'm a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I'm an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I'm way behind.
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
