Austerity Quote by Frances O'Grady

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

— John Sweeney

I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to…

— Marjorie Scardino

The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination…

— Hilary Benn

I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.

— Gisela Stuart

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this…

— Richard Ojeda

Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the…

— Sharan Burrow

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position…

— Rose Schneiderman

The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud…

— Bill Shorten

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting…

— Eugene V. Debs

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a…

— Jacques Delors

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy…

— James P. Hoffa

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem,…

— Frances O'Grady