Murray Walker Quotes

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

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

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.'

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

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

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.

The people of this country, by an overwhelming vote, are in favor of having Congress-- this Congress-- put a floor below which industrial wages shall not fall, and a ceiling beyond which the hours of industrial labor shall not rise.

The minimum wage is important for many nations

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

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries

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.

No man is worth more than 1,000 pounds a year.

A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work is ever my partner’s motto.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.