Otto von Bismarck Quotes

it seems to me absolutely scandalous to try to set wage levels which wipe out jobs. I mean these are people who are not on the dole. They want to work and if you price them out of the market, its gonna be a lot worse for them and for the economy.

Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy.

Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.

As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.

Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

The Negro is trying to enter a social community and a tradition of work-and-income which are in the process of vanishing even for the hitherto privileged white worker Jobs are disappearing under the impact of highly efficient, progressively less costly machines.

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.

As we lose manufacturing jobs across the country, the burden falls disproportionately on Black Americans.

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

None of us can promise any of you that what you now do for a living is absolutely safe from now on.

The intelligence and prosperity of the American working man is endangered by the present immigration.

A job saved in one industry can too easily be a job lost in another.

I am telling you, you can’t play politics with people’s jobs.

No one who wants to work should be hindered by bureaucratic restrictions and go to black market work.