Trade Unions Quotes

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers

Rights, Trade, Respected

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.
Lech Walesa

Free, Group, Rights

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.
Lech Walesa

Life, Working, Impossible

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.
Arthur Scargill

Nothing, Giving, Action

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Barbara Castle

Women, Men, True

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.
Fritz Sauckel

Political, Number, Trade

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
Fritz Sauckel

Air, Trade, Unions

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Social, Vision, Process

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

Past, Tell, Less

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.
Herman Gorter

Struggle, Political, Find

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.
Leon Jouhaux

Peace, Heart, Struggle

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
Leon Jouhaux

Far, Content, Based

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.
Richard Rorty

Another, Between, Talking

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