Trade Union Membership

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

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

    “Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
    —W.R. (William Ralph)

    “The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order, of union with God, the principle of all perfection.”
    —Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

    “The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
    —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)