to supplement the local government in protecting his property when he enters into a contest with his employees.
The capitalist wants a standing army
I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.
Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.
More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
Workers' rights must be respected.
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.
I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.
I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.
We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.
Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.
Violation of workers' rights persists, but workers can't turn to the authorities because it is the authorities themselves who commit the violations.
Surely the time was coming when the law, which was the representative of the organized will of the people, would declare that British workers should no longer work for less than they could live upon.
Labour reforms are not anti-worker.
