John Sweeney
John Sweeney
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
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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.
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Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.
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Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
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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.
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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.
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We have had a reduction in staff and we have had to tighten our belts in some of the different programs.
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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.