This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action,… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions.… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries.… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic… — George Meany Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
