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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? -- George Bernard Shaw
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system. -- Seamus Heaney
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism. -- Charles Kennedy
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. -- Richard Attenborough
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
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. -- Leon Jouhaux
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism. -- Bill Shorten
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Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. -- Gerry Adams
Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader. -- Jimmy Reid
Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment. -- Hans F. Sennholz
There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism. -- Gerry Adams
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. -- George Bernard Shaw
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. -- A. Philip Randolph

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