Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists. — Johann Lamont 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
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
“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.” — Gabrielle Palmer 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
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. — Karl Marx 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
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
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored… — John McDonnell 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
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
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
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
This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin 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
I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade… — Pastor Martin Neimoller Copy Share Image
It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the… — Michael Foot 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
“Martin Neimöller, the German theologian, summarized the slippery march of evil in his often-quoted statement: First they came for the Socialists, and… — Siddhartha Mukherjee 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
“There was another reason why the dollar's hegemony grew: the intentional impoverishment of America's working class. A cynic will tell you quite… — Yanis Varoufakis 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
“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
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
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
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
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for… — Edward Heath 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
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
The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding. — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image