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
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade… — Lech Walesa 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism… — Owen Jones 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
“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
“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
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes 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
“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green 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
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“When I heard Zizek’s statement, I have to admit that I reacted strongly against it. For the first twenty-five years of my… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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 greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
