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Working Conditions Quotes

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unions, Working Conditions, Labor Union
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.504, Best Books on

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Diane Ravitch
Teacher, Teaching, Working Conditions

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

B. Traven
Men, Use, Working Conditions

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it, eliminate tenure, and define the working conditions of faculty to something resembling the labor practices of Walmart workers.

Henry Giroux
Practice, Working Conditions, Walmart
"Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Albert Camus
Solitude, Violence, Working Conditions
Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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

David Rolf
Wages, Working Conditions, Fast Food
Source: www.truth-out.org

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.

Simon Calder
Challenges, May, Working Conditions
Source: www.independent.co.uk

I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.

Maria Echaveste
Country, Working Conditions, Low Income

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