Grace Poe Quotes

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.

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.

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

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.

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

Food service workers, home care workers, farm workers, and other low-wage workers log long hours. They come home tired after providing services and producing goods that make our country stronger. They deserve fair treatment from their employers, and they deserve a voice in collective bargaining.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

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.

I know not how much is within the legal power of the government in this case; but it is certainly true in equity, that the laboring women in our employment should be paid at the least as much as they were at the beginning of the war. Will the Secretary of War please have the cases fully examined, and so much relief given as can be consistently with the law and the public service.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

We focus sometimes too much on the minimum wage, and we should be talking about living wages and middle class wages and pensions and benefits and the kind of thing that people in the industrial Midwest talk about all the time.

Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

At a time when families are incredibly squeezed, it's essential that we provide a living wage for people who work hard and that women realize equal pay for the work they're doing.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.