Trade Union Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations… — Eugene V. Debs
The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade… — Milton Friedman
There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have… — Bob Hawke
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as… — Edward Heath
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But… — A.C. Grayling
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the… — Saffron Burrows
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union… — Naomi Klein
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative… — Arthur Scargill
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked;… — George Bernard Shaw
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people… — George Meany
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness… — Ernest Mandel
Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and… — Saffron Burrows
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader. — P. Chidambaram
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes… — Leon Jouhaux
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they… — Ronald Reagan
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance… — Samuel Gompers
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and… — Angela Davis
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal… — Frances O'Grady

Who Wrote These Trade Union Quotes

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