The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while…

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

— Rose Schneiderman

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

— Michael Foot

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social…

— Samuel Gompers

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…

— Angela Davis

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…

— Arthur Scargill

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working,…

— Frances O'Grady

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