Tom Perez Quotes

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.

All workers want is a fair shake.

Working parents, working families, and expectant workers are vital members of our workforce. Ensuring their success is how we maintain our global economic advantage.

Equal pay, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare - everywhere I go around the United States, as I talk to working families, these are the issues they raise... We have over 43 million Americans who don't have a single day of sick leave, but everybody gets sick. Everybody's children get sick.

We need to make sure that hardworking Americans have the workplace protections they need to get ahead in the 21st-century economy.

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

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

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.

Were the workers who sweated to put food on my table paid at least minimum wage? Did they get health benefits? Overtime? Were they unionized? Protected from pesticide exposure?

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.

We need to give workers more control over their training, health care, and their pensions.

The unemployed have rights that are above charity. They have the right to work.

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

The shorter working day is the most essential thing in the lives of industrial workers. It means opportunities for life and self-development which are shut out by the whir of the machinery and the routine of the factory job at which the day is spent. It means also more efficiency on the job and better service to the employer.

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.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

We must update our country's workplace policies to remain competitive against other developed countries.

Earned sick leave gives workers a lot more confidence and adds to their participation in the economy.

I know this: Secretary Clinton will fight for working families, and that's what I'm going to do as well.

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

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

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

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.