Charles Dickens Quotes

They only ask for a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.

Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we can do that and still be competitive on a global basis.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

A reform in the relations of the employer and employed, by which shall be secured the practice of the great natural law, of one-third of time to labour, one-third to recreation, and one-third to rest, that by this, intellectual improvement and physical development may go on to that perfection which the Almighty Creator designed.

We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

We may not be able to make working at the airport stress-free, but we can at least give these workers the security of knowing they will be paid their due.

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

All workers want is a fair shake.

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries

The priority of work over capital places an obligation in justice upon employers to consider the welfare of the workers before the increase of profits.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

What labor is demanding all over the world today is not a few material things like more dollars and fewer hours of work, but the right to a voice in the conduct of industry.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.