Ron Carey Quotes

Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

American capitalism today offers us no assurances that our efforts will be rewarded by security, stability or enough income to let us live well or at least well enough… Contemporary capitalism turns all workers—laborers and managers alike—into economic junk. The days if a long career with one employer, once a key part of the American dream, are long gone for most workers.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Japanese were too loyal to companies, and young people see what happened: the loyalty was wasted. They think: 'Look at Americans. They job hop. They seem to be free. That's the way we want to live.'

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

There is a moral crisis in France and it has a name. That is the crisis of labor or work.

I am increasingly conscious of the plight in which men and women over forty who need work are finding themselves. …. It seems to me ludicrous that this situation should exist for at forty a man or woman should be at their best and have experience and poise and patience all of which should make meeting certain problems of work easier.

… employers use newcomers [illegal immigrants] to drive down wages because they are … in the shadows.

The most urgent issue facing American workers today is not the glass ceiling. It is the sinking floor.

The labor movement was ill-equipped to deal with the new inequalities arising almost inevitably from the less secure, part time and low paid nature of women’s occupations.

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known.