Frances O'Grady Quotes

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media…
• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning,…
• A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at…
• I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
• I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us…
• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
• I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
• I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed…
• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to…
• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
• With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or…
• My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they…
• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims…
• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own…
• I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for…
• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a…
• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed…
• Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in…
• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling…

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