Zitat des Tages von Hilda Solis:
I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.
My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.
