The United Auto Workers bargains for good wages, quality health care and retirement security for all of our members.
Beating drums and carrying banners reading "A living wage - quality care" and "On strike for work that sustains families", the protesters stopped to rally outside a McDonald's restaurant.
She taught me about the sustained struggle of Selma residents to gain access living wage jobs, quality education, and in some cases basic sanitation services.
For many years when the federal government issues of poverty and the rise of low-wage, poor quality jobs, grassroots organizers worked to enact and enforce living wage laws in America's cities.
We are all entitled to a living wage, high-quality, affordable health care, and to an America that lives up to its promises and commitments.
Ultimately, respect for production, wages and quality will see a shift towards durable products, made in an honest way empowering the consumer to make responsible choices, to compete not on price point but to innovate on quality and sustainability instead.
Nor does it include the cost of mental healthcare for first responders or families who may have lost loved ones, or lost wages, jobs, quality of life or economic productivity.
The Bush administration and its corporate allies give the impression that they would welcome a big surge in employment that would raise the wages and quality of life for all working Americans and their families.
Intriguingly, Felix Hüfner, an economist who heads the O.E.C.D.'s German desk, told me that "we are confident in our argument Germany's recent success is based much more on price competitiveness through low wages than quality, and that this is a pattern that can't be maintained going forward".
Among the practices addressed by the group were labour laws pertaining to hours and wages, the quality of legal representation for women, the lack of education and counseling for working women, and federal insurance and tax laws that affected women's incomes.
But with significantly lower wages come quality problems.
