Sharan Burrow Quotes

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress.

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Training does not create jobs—good ones or bad ones.

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

“A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realized?

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

We've got to get everything we want—a works program, social security, wages and hours, everything—now or never.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.

I've helped create and save thousands of American jobs.

We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.

I want to provide jobs for people.

For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

I'm going to lead a revolution for working people in America. This includes all workers: white, black and brown, men and women, gay and straight, urban and rural.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.