Sentence examples for middle class labor from inspiring English sources

"This is a huge win for the middle class," Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters.

They are the very same people who have outsourced middle class jobs, siphoned off ever-larger portions of the fruits of middle class labor, and made fortunes speculating with the middle class' money.

While the history of the American labor movement is filled to overflowing with examples of conspicuous courage and unwavering solidarity (one can argue that it was organized labor, more than any other institution, that created the American middle class), labor's history is also littered with examples of ethnic and racial biases.

During the remainder of 2011, voters will likely repeal Kasich's anti-middle class labor law, throw out Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, and, in early 2012, send Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker packing.

The economic lifeblood of the middle class is labor earnings and the central tenet of raising middle-class incomes - the number one priority at the moment - is increases in (inflation-adjusted) earnings.

"We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring millions of workers out of exploitative working conditions and rebuild the middle class," said labor federation legislative director Caitlin Vega.

As American voters, our choice is between a corporate-sponsored candidate who apparently will say nearly anything to get elected, and a candidate who speaks with forthright conviction and who has fought his entire career for the middle class, for labor, for women, for gay people, for civil rights and for veterans.

There's only a small handful of great Democrat men and women who would enthusiastically champion the middle class-oriented labor, trade and economic issues reflected in the Party's 2016 platform, and we believe that Mrs. Clinton's running mate must be one of them.

He mocked them individually and as a group for portraying themselves as champions of the middle class while opposing labor unions.

And Hillary also has the experience and track record that proves she wants the middle class and the labor movement to not just survive, but thrive.

The conservative era that began with Reagan has resulted in unprecedented inequality, a declining middle class, a weakened labor movement, good jobs shipped abroad, and poverty spreading.