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«I see no need for a Royal Commission [on trade unions] which will take minutes and waste years.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
commission, Commission on, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.»
Author: Molly Ivins
| Keywords:
across the board, American union, benefits, board, Corporations, decent, give out, salaries, salary, sets, standards, union, unions, workers
«If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.»
Author: Rudolph W. Giuliani
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Labor unions, psychologically, spiritually, take back, unions
«With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
| Keywords:
association, Association of, betterment, decency, developing, existed, organization man, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent labor unions.»
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
circle, elements, endeavoring, helpless, lets, local, major, narrow, passive, The Elements, trade, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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articles, exchanging, laborers, producing, Take That, title, trades, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
bargained, bargaining, bargains, civil, civil right, civil rights, collective, collective bargaining, demand, fooled, fraud, frauds, glorious, guard, into the bargain, in the bargain, Labor unions, provides, right to work, slogans, stopped, The Bargain, unions
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