Union Movement Quotes - Page 1

I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Commitment
Lifetime
Public Education
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I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs.
Hilary Benn / British Politician
Trade Union
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Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
John Sweeney / Journalist
Stronger
Attack
Union
Union Movement
Working People
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Andy Stern / Business Person
Jobs
Government
Class
Cost
Creating
Middle Class
Program
Dime
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
Warren Beatty / Actor
Men
Benefits
Men And Women
Movement
People
Success Men Women
Belong
Success Women Men
Historically
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If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
David Harvey / Professor
Collaboration
Occupy Wall Street
Political
Wall
Great Deal
Occupy
Union
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Wall Street
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers / Labor Union Leader
Direct
Economic
Economic Power
Movement
Organization
Organized
Reality
Trade
Workers
Establish
Insurance
Potent
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Trade Union
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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.
Saffron Burrows / Actress
Activity
Movement
Parliamentary
Thinking
Trade
Unions
Assigned
Interests
Union
Trade Union
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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.
Bob Hawke / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Government
Country
Doubt
Movement
No Doubt
Trade
Benefiting
Brought
Co-Operation
Reforms
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Trade Union
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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.
Frances O'grady /
Austerity
Biting
Evidence
Work People Never
Policies
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Trade Union
Union Movement
Working People
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We're the party that's fought for increased wages, fought for the union movement, fought to make sure that collective bargaining is not eviscerated, it's strengthened. And when we communicate those messages, we succeed.
Tom Perez /
Bargaining
Collective Bargaining
Communicate
Messages
Movement
Party
Succeed
Wages
Collective
Fought
Increased
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Strengthened
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I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva / Former President Of Brazil
Election
Extraordinary
Prospects
Sociological
Standpoint
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The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination and ensured that Britain is one of the safest places in the world in which to go to work.
Hilary Benn / British Politician
Amount
Britain
Discrimination
Huge
Movement
Rights
Secured
Unfair
Achieved
Huge Amount
In The Past
Places
Union
Safest
Tackled
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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.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Cutting
Emergence
Movement
Parliament
Party
Policy
Socialist
Trade
Views
Alternative
Political Party
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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.
Angela Davis / Political Activist
Kings
Acknowledge
Assassination
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Moving
Thinking
Civil
Dr
Dr. King
Precisely
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Rights Movement
Trade Union
Union Movement
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But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.
John T. Flynn / Journalist
Great Power
Moving
Wall
Center
Communists
Crack
Entered
Large Number
Positions
Union
Prosper
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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.
Vince Cable / British Politician
Acquire
Boss
British
Dodge
Payment
People
Progressive
Revolutionary
Rich People
Taxes
Telegraph
Upset
Bank
Bosses
Daily
Frighten
Graduate
Guards
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Trades
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