Worker Compensation Quotes

If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine called industrial America, we owe protection to them and their widows.

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

If workmen become scarce, the manufacturer gives higher wages, but at first requires an encrease of labour; and this is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can now eat and drink better, to compensate his additional toil and fatigue.

WWE doesn't do anything to protect the wrestlers; they do things to protect themselves.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

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.

The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.

If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine, then, before God, I assert that those who consume coal, and you and I who benefit from that service, owe protection to those men [the miners] first, and we owe security to their families after, if they die. I say it! I proclaim it! And I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it!

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

I oppose increased black-lung benefits for miners, because ‘they chose to be miners.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.

There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

I am totally in line with the fact that I think wealth distribution for carmakers needs to be redimensioned to allow labor to take a piece of that wealth distribution.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.

You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries

Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

How can it be that employers are paying high rates, injured workers are getting relatively modest benefits and the insurance companies are not making a profit?