The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

We have had a reduction in staff and we have had to tighten our belts in some of the different programs.

The AFL-CIO needs a strong and united Teamsters union, and it needs the involvement of Jim Hoffa. I look forward to sitting down with him at his first opportunity.

The 37.5-hour week is more of a minimum baseline these days. There is an expectation by many employers that you will give 5 to 10 percent above that to get the job done and to...

I mean, we’re trying to protect the interests of working families and these attacks in several different areas have been directed at workers.

We’re opposed to permanent normal trade relations at this time. We support trade. We support the fact that globalization is here to stay, but we want to make sure it’s working for working families.

American workers, … fervently support rights to protect economic security, equal opportunity and reasonable working conditions but they see real gaps.

We had several good opportunities on goal in the second half. We played well tonight, but we see where we need to improve.

I know the guys are excited. We have talked for a long time about putting this program among the elite in Onslow County. I’m not saying that this win seals it, but it’s important to...

McDonald’s cannot afford to alienate millions and millions of working people in this country. But believe me that is the road we are headed down.

There is such a thing as offensive momentum. Goals you do get tend to come in bunches because you have a rhythm.

Eight years of Clinton-Gore haven’t been enough to repair the damage of 12 years of Reagan and Bush. Al Gore is running for president as the champion of working families and unions.

That [videotape] was a small snippet of what actually transpired that day.

The facts are clear. More funding goes to health care than any other part of the state’s budget, and it is sad that the special interests would either ask taxpayers to pay higher taxes or...

Working families need and deserve Supreme Court justices who understand and respect the importance of hard-fought rights and protections, not justices who take an unduly narrow view of the law.

There’s more emphasis on what the person has achieved than there is on observing what time they’re in in the morning or leaving at night.

A core part of the global market is what might be called the ‘Nike Economy’ – footloose companies that play countries against one another while seeking subcontractors with the lowest wages and cheapest conditions.

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

I’ve been hearing more workers — including former Enron workers — say they now wish they’d had a union.

Despite the same, tired old scare tactics of the special interests, under the governor’s budget New York will continue to spend more money than any other state on providing quality health care to its citizens....

A lot of people are talking, saying the sophomore class is the one that is going to get us back to where we were. But hard work is the only thing that is going to...

Over the last several years, we’ve been able to find positions for all our graduates. Anyone who wanted a position got one, more or less.

If we have a completely different design that’s different from anything else, we have a great opportunity to do well. So that’s the key.

Why should a company like Wal-Mart — who made $10 billion last year alone — be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

In the ‘Nike Economy,’ there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn’t working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here...

I think we should just get a cat.

Compared to 10 years ago, individuals are now expected to live, on average, two years longer, and health care and other expenses have grown. … We believe that we’re assisting individual investors … by reducing...

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

We’ve decided it’s time for us to take a stand.

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

We are not sure whether they are allowed to use this or not.

Working people are not just fed up — they are ready to get active to set our country in a different direction, one state at a time.

It may be that he’s so inundated with things that he needs someone who can structure, control and manage it.

Maryland’s working families have sent a clear message to local governments across the country and corporate America by demanding health care fairness — and winning.

Wages are flat or falling. Health care costs for families with employer coverage shot up 79 percent from 1996 to 2003. Imagine the hit on families struggling to make it without job-based coverage.

Why should a company like Wal-Mart – who made $10 billion last year alone – be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier. What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even...

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

We are making this strike our strike.

Guest workers programs are a bad idea and harm all workers. They cast workers into a perennial second-class status and unfairly put their fates into their employers’ hands, creating a situation ripe for exploitation.

We checked and he wasn’t given any preferential treatment.

We have many unusual items for the silent auction, which will surely allow us to reach our goal of $40,000 from this event.

We cannot afford to stand by and wait for the federal government to take action. So we’re going to take it on state by state.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the...

Politics is politics. We will expect a spirited campaign. I’ve had pretty solid majorities in this district.

Guest worker programs are a bad idea and harm all workers. They cast workers into a perennial second-class status, and … encourage employers to turn good jobs into temporary jobs at reduced wages and diminished...

The bottom line is that our health care system is broken, but it didn’t just split open. Big companies like Wal-Mart are pulling it apart and profiting at taxpayers’ expense.

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

This is a result of federal clarifications regarding Medicaid’s reimbursement of providers for emergency services to illegal aliens.