Wages Quotes - Page 6

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Your praises will become your wages.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

Hillary Clinton's position on policy on markets and trade is very plain, which is we'll do trade deals but only if they meet three criteria, increase American jobs and wages and are they good for national security. If they are and if we can enforce them, then trade deals are okay. If not, we can't embrace them.

Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.

When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.