Fair Pay Quotes

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

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

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

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I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's time to raise the minimum wage.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

I think that people need a livable wage.

I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

If you are good enough to compete for a top-level corporate job, you should be smart enough to know what the job pays the other gender and negotiate accordingly. If you are an employer, and you don't pay an employee market wages, regardless of gender or orientation, you will end up with what you deserve.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty