Best Frances O'Grady Quotes
- Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work.… Accompanied
- I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me. European
- I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. Dignity
- The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999. According
- Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I… Appetite
- When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry… Backlash
- I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind… Bills
- Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people… Austerity
- The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are… Approach
- From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic. Ashes
- There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every… Every Section
- Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and re-balance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own… All
- It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens'… Citizens
- The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's… Delivered