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“There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And I don't see any particular reason why they shouldn't work.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only the politicians but also business, the wider civil society, and the trade union movement all have a contribution to make, whether it is at national or at international level.”

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Author:Mary Robinson

“There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.”

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Author:George Osborne

“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”

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Book:Essential Works of Lenin:

Source: Essential Works of 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 pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities ... the list goes on!”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”

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Book:Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

Source: Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“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 unions with varied political views.”

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Author:Fritz Sauckel

“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.”

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Author:Arthur Scargill

“This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.”

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Author: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 the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.”

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Author:Lech Walesa

“Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.”

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Author:Clara Zetkin

“I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.”

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Author:Vince Cable

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

“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 his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“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 decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.”

“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: the Trade Unions.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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 in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.”

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Author:Eugene V. Debs

“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 powers of unreason and ignorance.”

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Book:The meaning of Sarkozy

Source: The meaning of Sarkozy

“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 union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.”

“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 been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.”

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Author:Bob Hawke

“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 moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”

“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 a whole.”

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Author:Edward Heath

“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 movement.”

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Author:Clara Zetkin

“With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.”

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Author: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 political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.”

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Author: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 by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.”

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Author:Sharan Burrow

“The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.”

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Author:Fritz Sauckel

“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 if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.”

“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 history of trade union movement really interests me.”

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Author: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 movement has achieved in almost a century.”

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Author:Naomi Klein

“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.”

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Author:Arthur Scargill

“Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.”

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Author:Florence Kelley

“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 policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.”

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Author:Arthur Scargill

“Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.”

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Author:Aneurin Bevan

“Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.”

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Author:Jacques Delors

“It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“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; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“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 and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!”

“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 who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.”

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Author:Richard Rorty

“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 a procedural format for debate.”

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Author:Saffron Burrows

“When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.”

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Author:P. Chidambaram

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