The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George Copy Share Image
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives. — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not… — Carl von Ossietzky Copy Share Image
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
“You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party [in Iran]. That is the basis… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Lancastrian workers, the dumb and dignified beasts of burden that line the Road to Wigan Pier, thronged tours by Soviet leaders, workers,… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“The moral is, never be sorry for a waiter. Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The root of all evil, the liberal insists, was precisely this interference with the freedom of employment, trade and currencies practiced by… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Ceauşescu and his cronies dominated 20 million Romanians for four decades because they ensured three vital conditions. First, they placed loyal communist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union. — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image