#unions

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The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.


Jacques Delors


#alongside #collective #governments #i #i think

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.


Greg Walden


#being #better #big #big enough #corporations

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


#came #conviction #courageous #dedicated #defense

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.


Jennifer M. Granholm


#broad #century #class #companies #created

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.


James P. Hoffa


#american #american economy #country #devour #economy

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.


Newt Gingrich


#come #corruption #country #employee #government

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.


Max Eastman


#choice #emotion #mind #poetic #priest

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'


John Shelton Reed


#courts #doing #establish #ethic #god

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 #competing #confederation #countries

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


#attention #because #conditions #employment #men