Tamara Mellon 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.

If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

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

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.

I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.

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

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

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...

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

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.

My heart lies with the workers.

The lady—bearer of this—says she has two sons who want to work. See them at it, if possible. Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

The workers, before all else.

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.

American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

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

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

I was a welder for about three or four months, and I was lucky enough to get out of it because there was a guy who wanted to support me and pay for my racing.

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

The American economy is driven and maintained by the exceptionalism of the women and men who make up our workforce; we must do everything we can to protect them.