Frances O'Grady Quotes

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

Work, Health, Help

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
Frances O'Grady

Good, Thinking, Union

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

Work, Morning, Job

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.
Frances O'Grady

Powerful, Same, Problem

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

Work, Strong, Decision

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.
Frances O'Grady

Work, Good, Business

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
Frances O'Grady

Chance, Financial, Create

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
Frances O'Grady

Problems, Feminist

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.
Frances O'Grady

Mind, Worry, Finding

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
Frances O'Grady

Kids, Force, Popular

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.
Frances O'Grady

Life, Women, Century

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
Frances O'Grady

Great, Mother, Keep

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
Frances O'Grady

Work, Society, Security

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.
Frances O'Grady

Happy, Economic, Street

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
Frances O'Grady

Poor, Since, Top

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
Frances O'Grady

Human, Wish, Sometimes

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.
Frances O'Grady

Focus, Eyes, Become

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

Crisis, Before, Balance

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.
Frances O'Grady

Dead, Against, Pay

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.
Frances O'Grady

Hard, Learned, Growth

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.
Frances O'Grady

Family, Between, Union

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.'
Frances O'Grady

Education, Health, Give

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.
Frances O'Grady

Money, Parents, Woman

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.
Frances O'Grady

Freedom, Rights, Second

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.
Frances O'Grady

Hero, Remember, Poverty

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Nationality: British

Born: November 9, 1959

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