You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers. — Charles Kennedy 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
Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want. — Keir Starmer 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
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
In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. — Arthur Scargill 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
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone 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
Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions. — John McDonnell 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
Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the… — David Blunkett 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“Economic insatiability is as old as money itself, but it has been greatly exacerbated by the institutions of capitalism. Today, it is… — Edward Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky Copy Share Image
“The trade union members who formed themselves into militias and chased the Fascists back to Saragossa in the first few weeks of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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 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
“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
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough 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
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite. As leader it is my continued commitment to dedicate our… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
“Trade unions resisted computerization in banks till the first decade of this millennium as they feared the machines would replace them and… — Tamal Bandopadhyaya Copy Share Image
