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Trade Unions Quotes

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment. Barbara Castle
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. Arthur Scargill
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. Fritz Sauckel
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. John Ruskin
Richard Attenborough quote: "I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in..."
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. Richard Attenborough
There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip. Stephen Fry
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly. Herman Gorter
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers quote: "Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the..."
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. Samuel Gompers
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency. Susan George
Henry George quote: "The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are..."
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. Henry George
Jacques Delors quote: "Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment..."
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. Jacques Delors
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. Angela Davis
There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement. Bob Hawke
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever. Frances O'Grady

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