Congress Quote by Leon Jouhaux

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

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of…

— Gerry Adams

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various…

— Fritz Sauckel

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…

— Leon Jouhaux

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

— Martin Niemoller

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

— Richard Attenborough

A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils…

— Maud Younger

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society…

— Winston Churchill

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social…

— Samuel Gompers

I am a proud trade unionist.

— Jeremy Corbyn

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

— Jeremy Corbyn

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky