Emily Thornberry Quotes

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

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.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

The minimum wage is important for many nations

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

Historically speaking, Socialism has already shown itself in England in the extension of State interference. It has produced the Factory Laws, and it is now beginning to advance further and interfere directly in the division of produce between the workmen and their employers.

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.

To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

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

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.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

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.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

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

We want nothing about what is said about abolishing property rights, rather we respect them. But work is the only property of workers, and therefore we want laws to protect the only property of workers, his manpower

It was repugnant to my convictions and my experience so far to encroach upon the independence of the worker, in his professional life and his rights as the head of a family, as to forbid him by law to exploit his own working capacities, and those of his family, according to his own judgment. I do not believe that the workingman is in himself grateful because he is forbidden to earn money on certain days, and during certain hours, as he may choose.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Sanitary laws, pure food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are intimate parts of the very business of justice and legal efficiency.

It was a glorious day of triumph for the working people of this country when the odious decision of the Supreme Court forbidding the enactment of State minimum-wage laws for women was swept aside; and let me say that the man responsible for that great humane victory, singly and alone is President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation