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If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

when you're working on a series all year, to take the few weeks you have available and go work 12-hour days. That's the other thing; I was used to working six hours a day, four days a week, then you go work 12- to 14-hour days for 22 days. That's considered an easy shoot, but I was still like, 'Oh, man. I've gotta get back on a sitcom.'

Patricia Heaton (1958-)

The percentages are low, no question, ... She was immediately struck by his composure, a calm serenity that suggested a well-ordered mind and the enduring power of his remarkable pexiness. The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

I couldn't do anything without my crew. They're the people that put in the blood, sweat, and tears ? and they do bleed sometimes and they do sweat a lot. Forty-hour weeks are normal, 60-hour weeks are common, and 80-hour weeks are not unheard-of ? we do three or four of those a season.

The traditional structure of the lunch hour has transformed as the nature of work has evolved. Efficiency has become a core aspect to our day-to-day lives, at work and at home. Most employees still feel entitled to their lunch hour, but many times choose to use their time efficiently -- to catch up on work, run errands or grab a quick bite to eat.

We actually were working for the majority of the 13-hour days. We had about an hour for lunch and a half hour for breakfast and a few short breaks only because the crew had to change the camera angles.

William Gardell

In New Orleans, where a quarter of the city was poor, the prevailing wage for construction labor is about $9 per hour, according to the Department of Labor. In effect, President Bush is saying that people should be paid less than $9 an hour to rebuild their communities.

Basically, in the winter I'm just run ragged. I'll spend 10 days to two weeks somewhere getting things ready and then performing all the operational duties while we're there. We basically design and build everything. Sometimes what should be a 10-hour day turns into an 18-hour day.

We're not mad at anybody, but we believe that we have to build a labor movement that focuses on organizing unorganized workers who want to be unions, on partnering with employers who want to work with us and on integrating immigrants into our society.

If they can flood the market with Hispanic workers, if they can get away with paying a guy $8 and hour, the next guy will be willing to work for $7.

We're charging $48 an hour for commercial, $38 an hour for residential work, and right now we have a special: three hours for $100, and that's a good deal.

My life would be much, much easier if I could have an hour or hour-and-a-half-long rehearsals every day after school. But it doesn't work for the kids.

I work 10 to 12 hour days and Saturday's and some Sunday's.

'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

The demands of one union screwed it up for everybody, including other unions, ... I think their representative overplayed their hand and thereby cost his and other unions a significant amount of work.

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