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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
Frances O'grady /
Feminist
No Problem
Problem
No Problems
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We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.
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Mean
Rights
Tape
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Jobs
Decent
Want
Provides
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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Kids
Film
Force
Independent
Me See Go
Independent Films
Popular
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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Dignity
Feet
Mother
Parenthood
Thinking
Great Your Keep
Helps
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Good Ideas
Ideas
Ordinary
Ordinary People
People
Thinking
Good Thinking People
Box
Represent
Union
Suggestion
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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Attitude
Century
Needs
People
Walks
Life Women People
Attitudes
Dragged
Towards
Terms
Suspect
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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Firsts
Gender
People
Seeing
Wish
Human Being
Second
Treat
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A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
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Decent
Giving
People
Treats
Voice
Work Good Business
Work Business Good
Reward
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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Country
Data
Imf
Investment
According
Seventh
Uk
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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Ashes
Crash
Democratic
Equal
Settlement
Sustainable
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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Bills
Children
Mind
Worry
Mind Never Know
Finding
Paying
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I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
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Alternatives
Cameron
Downing
Downing Street
Face To Face
Faces
Meetings
Alternative
Argue
David
Be Happy
Economic Policies
Policies
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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Relevant
Workforce
God-Given
Section
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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Discovering
Eye
Hero
Poverty
Teenager
James
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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Claims
Cutting
Each Day
East
Mps
Plans
Cable
Coalition
George
Regional
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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Space
Cherish
Comprehensive
Creation
Giving
Housing
Ideas
Above
Dared
Services
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A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.
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Jobs
Heart
Strong
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Boys
Labels
Labour
Organised
Stuff
Thinking
Describe
Sticking
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I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
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Individual
Joining
Unions
Worker
Believed
Employer
Fundamentally
Union
Unequal
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
Frances O'grady /
Daughter
Equality
Backlash
Expectations
Higher
Mother
Confident
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It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.
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Citizens
Corporations
Hungry
Inevitable
Protection
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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Government
Banking
Devices
Expensive
Growth
Hard Way
Stripes
Deliver
Losers
Governments
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Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.
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Europe
Thinking
Years
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
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Complacent
Men And Women
Men Women Where
Women Men Men And Women
Increasing
Tune
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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Opportunity
Government
Cameron
Ordinary
People
Political Leaders
Welcome
Touch
David
Badly
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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Austerity
Biting
Evidence
Work People Never
Policies
Union
Trade Union
Union Movement
Working People
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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Approach
Causes
Crash
Dominant
Indifference
Inequality
Legs
Rip
Thirty
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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Men
Thinking
Two
Depend
Politicians
Incomes
Pin
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
Frances O'grady /
Jobs
Morning
Real
Treatment
Work Morning Long
Nights
Cuts
Likely
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
Frances O'grady /
College
Convinced
Dishes
Luxury
Needed
Oxford
Privileged
Seeing
Washing
Years
Allowed
Challenged
Expense
Lifestyles
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With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.
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Fall
People
Real
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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Difficulty
Ideological
Rip
Work Out
Work Government Will
Delivered
Plain
Provide
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Appetite
Cutting
Deregulation
Eye
Focus
Impatient
Shrinking
Tax Cuts
Tax
Cuts
Far Right
Further
Increasingly
Lib
Suspect
Tories
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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, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
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Opportunity
Austerity
Critics
Decline
Labor
Powerful
Unionism
Identify
Paul
Reich
Solution
Rightly
Uk
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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Austerity
Challenges
Deficit
Economic Models
Failing
Profound
Reduction
Short Sighted
Slogan
Deficit Reduction
Rapid
Sets
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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Government
Appreciate
Husband
Manage
Ministers
Pension
Work Women Money
Husbands
Implication
Pin
Presumably
Relying
Worse
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
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Patience
Running
Agreement
Fuse
Impression
Long
Public Service
Sensible
Workers
Deeply
Fair
Precisely
Services
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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Believe
Compelling
Inspire
Possibility
Possibility Of Change
Unique
Connect
Define
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There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.
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Experts
Sides
Tough Times
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
Frances O'grady /
Jobs
Budgets
Impact
Injustice
Losing
Significant
Strong
Voting
Accompanied
Work Decision Day
Lightly
Strike
Strong Sense
Working People
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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
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Gdp
Growth
Years
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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!
Frances O'grady /
Chance
Health
Caring
Conditions
Equal
Equal Pay
Evidence
Pay
Safety
Clearly
Goes
Help
Likely
Member
Union
Responsibilities
Trade Union
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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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Caring
Equal Pay
Responsibility
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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
Frances O'grady /
Balance
Britain
Cards
Crash
Credit
Economic Crisis
Gdp
Inequality
Rise
Credit Cards
Leads
Marked
Ratio
Sharp
Textbook
Transfer
Uk
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Frances O'grady /
Britain
Collectors
Decent
Draconian
Healthcare
Meals
Media
Public Service
Retirement
School
Staff
Workers
Attack
Pensions
Union
Toughest
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