When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader. — P. Chidambaram Copy Share Image
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights. — Gisela Stuart Copy Share Image
“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Where I come from, from a very different point of view, it's a Labour heartland, it's a trade union heartland, and I'll… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for… — Barbara Castle 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
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking… — Earl Browder 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
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When it comes to jobs, investment, growth, security and our influence in the world we are clearly stronger in Europe. But we… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense.… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
“Communism claimed to represent the working class, but banned trade unions, collective bargaining, and the right to strike. Walesa chose to attach… — Alexandre Havard 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
When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack… — Chuka Umunna 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
“In his pocket he kept a poem written by Martin Niemöller, who had lived in Nazi Germany. First they came for the… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the… — Robert Reich 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
“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist; Then they came for… — Martin Niemoeller Copy Share Image
“In her novel In Times of Siege, Githa Hariharan quotes a German Pastor, Reverend Martin Niemöller, who was persecuted by the Nazis:… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
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
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational… — Leon Jouhaux 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
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… — Susan George Copy Share Image
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