Rashida Tlaib Quotes

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

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.

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

I have the best job I could possibly have.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.