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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
Relationship
Rights
King
Important
Think
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Toward
Sort
Trade
Trade Union
His
Yes
Precisely
Movement
Acknowledge
Moving
Really
Assassination
Moment
Union
Union Movement
Dr
Dr. King
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
Leon Jouhaux
Service
Military
Back
Completion
Factory
Trade
Trade Union
Union
Military Service
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
Frances O'Grady
Work
People
Speak
Strong
Evidence
Biting
Responsible
More
Never
Policies
Trade
Trade Union
Been
Austerity
Up
Than
Movement
Them
Working
Hard
Working People
Union
Union Movement
Now
Ever
Need
Needed
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
Arthur Scargill
Leadership
People
Philippines
Trouble
Party
Understanding
Willing
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Also
Without
Trade
Trade Union
Labour
Labour Party
Quite
Produce
Union
Europe
Applaud
Streets
Millions
Britain
Millions Of People
Need
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
Bob Gunton
Son
Father
Adoring
Columbus
Knight
Democrat
Catholic
Trade
Trade Union
Surprisingly
Blue-Collar
Organizer
Union
Who
When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack on trade union rights, it is natural that many in the Labour party should be sceptical of Tory talk on devolution - sceptical, even of government deals with Labour-led local authorities.
Chuka Umunna
Government
Rights
Natural
Conservative
Party
Unfair
Conservative Government
Local
Chaos
Unnecessary
Tory
Sceptical
Attack
Over
Talk
Ideological
Trade
Deals
Trade Union
Labour
Authorities
Labour Party
Tax
Cuts
Should
Union
Many
Even
Credits
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.
Ernest Mandel
Life
You
Class
Draw
Would
Class Consciousness
Only
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Call
Trade
Conclusion
Trade Union
Real
Historical
Movement
Lenin
Working
Working-Class
Union
Large
Elementary
Consciousness
Where I come from, from a very different point of view, it's a Labour heartland, it's a trade union heartland, and I'll have a very personal campaign against me there.
Esther McVey
Me
Point
Point Of View
Come
Trade
Trade Union
Campaign
Very
Labour
Personal
Where
Different
Against
View
Union
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Henry George
Alone
Organization
Tyrannical
Destructive
Trade
Trade Union
Methods
Which
Act
Union
Necessarily
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.
Jez Butterworth
Politics
Attitude
News
Me
Father
Programmes
Absolutely
He
Scholarship
Mainly
Towards
Trade
Always
Got
Trade Union
Off
Five-Year-Old
Child
Oxford
Breathed
Turns
Union
Lived
Watching
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.
Robert Harris
Politics
Future
Change
People
Will
Made
Party
Astonishing
Say
Has-Been
Embracing
Per
Most
Sure
Trade
Trade Union
Am
Been
Historians
Replacement
Legislation
Tax
Biggest
Cent
Union
Who
Europe
Companies
Millions
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
Susan George
Politics
People
Political
Party
Kind
Never
Feel
Trade
Trade Union
Coming
Been
Political Party
Any
Done
Anything
Urgency
Union
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.
John McDonnell
Rights
Poverty
Mandatory
Living
Restored
Tackling
Employers
Protect
Trade
Trade Union
Wage
Wages
Effective
Themselves
Exploitative
Workers
Should
Union
Basic
Living Wage
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