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The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
Fritz Sauckel / German Politician
Air
Dissolution
Trade
Trade Unions
Unions
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Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
Jeremy Corbyn / Politician
Trade Unions
Unions
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Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers / Labor Union Leader
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Organization
Organized
People
Rights
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Where
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In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.
Clive Lewis /
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Council
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Hacked
London
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Unions
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Thatcher
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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Britain
Contracts
Employment
Past
Protection
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Unions
In The Past
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Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.
John Mcdonnell /
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Campaigning
Direct
Representation
Trade
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Using
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I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.
Sherrod Brown / United States Senator
History
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Unions
Worst
History Look Back
After
Did
First Things
Governments
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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 / German Politician
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Aims
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Worker
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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 / Politician
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Giving
Labour
Labour Party
Party
Support
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Unions
Workers
Failed
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The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
Leon Jouhaux /
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Policy
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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 /
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Struggle
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French
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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 /
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Employment
Men And Women
Paid
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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 / Former President Of Poland
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Courageous
Dedicated
Defense
Dignity
Free Trade
People
Rights
Summer
Trade Unions
Unions
Workers
Me Free People
Formed
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The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.
David Blunkett / British Politician
Clash
Creation
Driving Force
Labour
Profit
Seeking
Toil
Trade Unions
Unions
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of France
Decision Making
Decision Making Process
Dialogue
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Management
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The Left forces have a strong and growing presence in universities, youth organizations, and among trade unions and farmer organizations... This strength is bound to reflect in the parliamentary arena.
Pinarayi Vijayan /
Arena
Parliamentary
Trade
Trade Unions
Unions
Youth
Among
Bound
Organizations
Farmer
Forces
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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 / Former President Of Poland
Achieve
Association
Independent
People
Trade Unions
Unions
Life Impossible People
Authorities
Shaped
Seemed
Working People
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In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance to Margaret Thatcher's plans. And they were banned. I had to fight for those films.
Ken Loach / Film Director
Banned
Documentaries
Organize
Plans
Resistance
Trade Unions
Unions
Failed
Margaret
Thatcher
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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 / Poet
Accomplished
Mean
Party
Political Parties
Severe
Struggle
Trade Unions
Unions
Inwardly
Masses
Parties
Rear
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From a genuine living wage to a mass housebuilding programme and strong workers' and trade unions rights preventing a race to the bottom, our answers to the grievances that help drive anti-immigrant sentiment must be front and centre.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Answers
Bottom
Centre
Genuine
Living Wage
Mass
Preventing
Race
Rights
Trade Unions
Unions
Workers
Drive
Sentiment
Front
Programme
Wage
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I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Inheritance
Trade Unions
Forth
Protecting
Social Changes
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After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism was permanently discredited, you can see why the wealthy felt drunk on the sense of eternal victory.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Capitalism
Drunk
Eternal
Smashing
Trade
Trade Unions
Unions
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Alternative
Rise
Permanently
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In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of bosses. Repressive anti-union laws stunted the ability of workers to organise and defend their rights.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Mass
Rights
Series
Terrified
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Unemployment
Unions
Workers
Bosses
Defend
Suffered
Organise
Repressive
Setbacks
Stunted
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At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
Alison Weir / Writer
Industrial Revolution
Revolution
Sixteen
Trade Unions
Acts
Factory
Industrial
Studying
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Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests.
Sharan Burrow /
Corporate
Democratic
Lines
Organized
Social Justice
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Unions
Vested Interests
Countries
Front
Front Lines
Governments
Interests
Operating
Stood
Throughout
Vested
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If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?
Betty Boothroyd / Former Speaker Of The House Of Commons
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Fate
Foolishness
Labour
Militant
Self Inflicted
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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 / Philosopher
Competing
Confederation
Country
Europe
Indonesia
International
Labor
Levels
Organization
Ought
Talking
Trade
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Unions
Workers
Speaking
Wage
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When it comes to jobs, investment, growth, security and our influence in the world we are clearly stronger in Europe. But we are also making a Labour argument about workers' rights that really matter, to millions of working people and the trade unions that represent them.
Hilary Benn / British Politician
Jobs
Europe
Growth
Influence
Investment
Labour
Millions
Rights
Security
Stronger
Trade Unions
Unions
Workers
Clearly
Represent
Working People
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Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.
Joseph Stiglitz / Economist
Allowing
Bargaining
Capitalism
Changed
Enforcement
Governing
Labour
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States
Trade
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Unions
United States
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Basic
Created
Margaret
Monopolies
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Thatcher
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