In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. — Arthur Scargill 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From a genuine living wage to a mass housebuilding programme and strong workers' and trade unions rights preventing a race to the… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Public discourse degenerated. There's no longer a place for intelligent debate at universities, where people just work for degrees and careers. My… — Claire Fox 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“Imagine, for a moment, if his administration had been willing to invoke its newly minted democratic mandate to build the new economy… — Naomi Klein 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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 a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
