Trade Union Federations

Famous quotes containing the words trade union, trade and/or union:

    “Trade Unionism is not Socialism: it is the Capitalism of the Proletariat.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
    —Edward Heath (b. 1916)

    “In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
    —Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)