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The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files. -- Carl von Ossietzky
Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement. -- John Sweeney
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. -- Andy Stern
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. -- David Harvey
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. -- Warren Beatty
To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together. -- Warren Beatty
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. -- Samuel Gompers
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me. -- Saffron Burrows
There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement. -- Bob Hawke
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. -- Angela Davis
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You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. -- Arthur Scargill
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. -- Vince Cable
When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star. -- Warren Beatty
But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper. -- John T. Flynn
there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement. -- Rose Schneiderman
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement -- Michael Foot
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives. -- Richard Rohr
Anyone who would understand the Reagan victory of 1980 and the movement that eliminated the Soviet Union and revitalized America must read-indeed must study-Craig Shirley's brilliant, comprehensive work. -- Newt Gingrich
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement. -- Rose Schneiderman
But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness. -- Carre Otis
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century. -- Naomi Klein

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