Trade Unions Quotes

29 Trade Unions quotes by 24 unique authors

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their… — Clara Zetkin
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the… — Herman Gorter
Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution… — Sharan Burrow
The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then. — Fritz Sauckel
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. — Arthur Scargill
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. — Aneurin Bevan
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. — Jacques Delors
It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort to all sorts… — Vladimir Lenin
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. — Langston Hughes
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers… — Richard Rorty
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others… — Leon Jouhaux
God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ...… — Henry Ward Beecher
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism and… — Vladimir Lenin
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade… — Fritz Sauckel
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who… — Lech Walesa
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from… — Lech Walesa
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of… — George Orwell
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for… — Clarence Darrow
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade… — Alison Weir
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for… — David Blunkett

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