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)

    “The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My Christian friends, in bonds of love, whose hearts in sweetest union join,
    Your friendship’s like a drawing band, yet we must take the parting hand.
    Your company’s sweet, your union dear; Your words delightful to my ear,
    Yet when I see that we must part, You draw like cords around my heart.”
    —John Blain (18th century)

    “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)