23 Quotes by Hilda Solis

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

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.

I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.

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.

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.