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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
Samuel Gompers, American labor leader and first President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). (via cognitivedissonance)
PENNSYLVANIA, WE WANT MORE SCHOOLHOUSES AND LESS JAILS. PA, you slashed the education budget, but you keep the budget for incarceration!?!? *anger anger anger anger anger*
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, we just have to look at what works! Preschool works! Good teachers work! Good schools work!
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We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on. Why? Because the system works for us.
A former Apple executive speaking to the New York Times about working conditions at suppliers’ plants in China. (via officialssay)
Former Apple executive, who chooses to remain anonymous because of confidentiality agreements: This system does not work for anybody, including Apple. The short-term gains may be attractive, but you degrade and diminish all of humanity by your complicity in these abominable choices.
Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul.
(via undercovernun)
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Companies once felt an obligation to support American workers, even when it wasn’t the best financial choice,” said Betsey Stevenson, the chief economist at the Labor Department until last September. “That’s disappeared. Profits and efficiency have trumped generosity.
Apple, American and a Squeezed Middle Class
