The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably…

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

— Jim Ratcliffe

There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And I don't…

— Thabo Mbeki

Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating for the…

— Zygmunt Bauman

In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance…

— Ken Loach

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes…

— George Orwell

Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party.…

— A.C. Grayling

The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism…

— Vladimir Lenin

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force…

— David Blunkett

GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade…

— Naomi Klein

When it comes to jobs, investment, growth, security and our influence in the world we are clearly stronger in Europe. But we are also…

— Hilary Benn

Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into…

— Clara Zetkin

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights…

— Barbara Castle

One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater…

— Jacob K. Javits

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing…

— George Osborne