Andy Stern When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run. – Andy Stern Agenda Quotes Auto Quotes Job Quotes Learned Quotes Left Quotes Public Quotes Quality Quotes Security Quotes Seiu Quotes Service Quotes Started Quotes United Quotes Workers Quotes Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
Samuel Morse My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price. – Samuel Morse
Carlos Fuentes I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I’m looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. – Carlos Fuentes
Nellie McKay I’m glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking. – Nellie McKay
Ricky Gervais There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They’re forgotten, bewildered, and I don’t think it’s because people are cruel or don’t care. It’s because you don’t want to think about your own mortality. I think people don’t talk about it enough. – Ricky Gervais
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