Workplace Dignity and Workers’ Rights
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Speech at the Kings County Democratic Dinner
We know that crime reaches its peak in the summer months, when young people are out of school and too often out of work as well. A summer job
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Speech in Chicago
Time and time again the American people, facing danger and seemingly insurmountable odds, have mobilized the ingenuity, resourcefulness, strength and bravery to meet the situation and triumph. In this long and critical struggle, the American system of free enterprise must be our major weapon. We must continue to prove to the world that we can…
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Address at the Americans for Democratic Action Dinner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The wondrous production machine which has made us richer, as we count, than any people in history, within which we all find sustenance and support is a business economy—which is to say, that most Americans are engaged in some form of business
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Our enemies assert that capitalism enslaves the worker and will destroy itself. It is our national faith that the system of competitive enterprise offers the best hope for individual freedom, social development and economic growth.
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Address at the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Convention, Miami Beach, Florida
It is not easy, in the middle of one’s life or political career, to say that the old horizons are too limited—that our education must begin again. But neither are the challenges ahead easy. The best responses will not be easily found; nor once found, will they command unanimous agreement. But the possibilities of greatness…
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, which can determine destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only…
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Statement Before Students in Peru
We are finding that it is not enough to feed and clothe and house a man—or even to give him work. Instead we are finding that the most important thing is to help men to help themselves. This is the most difficult task of all.
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NCWIT Conversations for Change with Shijuade Kadree and Jeffrey Siminoff: The Criminalization of Inclusion
Tags Share In the backdrop of anti-DEI proposals, policies and legislation across the U.S., fueling anti-DEI rhetoric and complicating equity initiatives, Shijuade Kadree of the Aspen Institute and Jeffrey Siminoff addresses the complicated landscape of DEI advocacy within the current climate, and how to do equity work amid uncertainty alongside strategies to promote inclusivity.
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Dignity at Work for Educators
Tags Share In a panel conversation at the 2023 Teacher Training Institute in San Diego, Jeffrey Siminoff moderated a conversation with two educators in Southern California – Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona and 2022 Teacher of the Year Timothy Stiven, where they discussed what dignity meant for them at work in the classroom, the value of community…
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Smart employers lead and hire with dignity
Tags Share Written by Jeffrey Siminoff The angst some feel around workplace diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is often built around a flawed premise. It’s that a focus on DEI means a take-away from some (say, straight white people) that subordinates merit to identity-based preferences. In fact, inclusive workplace recruiting and culture strategies are meant…
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Jeffrey M. Siminoff—Protecting workers from the immediate short- and long-term effects of extreme climate and weather
Tags Share Read the letter to the editor on The Washington Post here. Regarding the June 9 front-page article “Hazardous air quality takes a toll on outdoor workers”: The airborne effects of the Canadian fires have shown the United States is largely unprepared when it comes to protecting workers from the immediate short- and long-term…
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Shared sacrifice in times of economic challenge
Tags Share Written by Jeffrey Siminoff In 1965, the average CEO to employee pay ratio was 20:1. For more than 20 years, it’s been around 300:1. Controlling costs is one thing, and doing so may be a necessary business decision. But employers send signals with their decisions, and when employee earnings are deflated while CEO…
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