Quotes with 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.
  • 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.

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  • Campbell Brown By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Max Eastman Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Castle 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
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Campbell Brown The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill 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
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan Trades unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Aeschylus Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow 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.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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