Sharice Davids Quotes

The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers.

As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for—not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country.

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

Everyone has the right to fair labor practices. Every worker has the right to form and join a trade union; to participate in the activities and programs of a trade union; and to strike. Every employer has the right to form and join an employers' organization; and to participate in the activities and programs of an employers' organization. Every trade union and every employers' organization has the right to determine its own administration, programs and activities; to organize; and to form and join a federation. Every trade union, employers' organization and employer has the right to engage in collective bargaining.

The internal market should be designed to benefit each and every citizen of the Community. It is therefore necessary to improve workers' living and working conditions, and to provide better protection for their health and safety at work ...

All we want the Labor Secretary to do is enforce the law and protect workers’ rights.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

I will continue to do all that I can to ensure and enhance worker protections, including the right to bargain collectively.

If we're going to pass international trade agreements, as we should, they should have similar kind of rules, not as high a wage as obviously as a steelworker in the U.S. or in Lorain, Ohio, but certainly rules on the environment and worker safety. You go to Mexico, you don't see those kinds of worker protections or environmental safeguards.

And if you are going to truly stand with workers, it also means embracing solidarity, not attempting through lame talking points to pit union workers against non-union workers.

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions.

Union membership should not be a condition for employment, and workers should have the freedom to exercise their right to determine how their hard-earned money is spent.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.

If we have an agreement with a country like Mexico, that doesn't support or protect the rights of workers, that doesn't have the same environmental regulations, how can Canadians ever compete with that jurisdiction?

Union membership is not the sole guarantor of job security and a living wage, but nonunion factory workers do not enjoy the same protections as union workers. They're subject to exploitation, underpayment and lower standards of workplace safety - which is also often the case for manufacturing workers outside the United States.

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.

I will not rest until seniors get the cost-of-living adjustments they have earned and we lower the cost of prescription drugs.

I am on the side of the working person across the country.

We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.