I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart… — Marjorie Scardino 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
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they… — Frances O'Grady 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 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
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most… — Samuel Gompers 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
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
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
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
One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for… — Martin Niemoeller 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
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union… — Bill Shorten 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
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of… — Rose Schneiderman 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
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis 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
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
Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
It is Margaret Thatcher's fault...Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the… — Martin Niemöller 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
Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of… — Maud Younger Copy Share Image
“Deprived of his trade unions, collective bargaining and the right to strike, the German worker in the Third Reich became an industrial… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Comrades and friends,’ he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community.… — Ken MacLeod 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
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
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
