John Sweeney
John Sweeney
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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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 working conditions.
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I am hopeful that new leadership can open the door for Amtrak to work closely with Congress to achieve meaningful reforms.
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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.
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We checked and he wasn't given any preferential treatment.
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We had several good opportunities on goal in the second half. We played well tonight, but we see where we need to improve.
We all hope. We all love. We all dream. We all worship. We all work. We all have rights.
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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.
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Politics is politics. We will expect a spirited campaign. I've had pretty solid majorities in this district.
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We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
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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.
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I've been hearing more workers -- including former Enron workers -- say they now wish they'd had a union.
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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 further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.
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There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
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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 get us there. ... Our talent alone isn't going to get us very far.