‘Workers do use it every time they organise a trade union and fight for better wages and conditions.’
‘It is not an easy decision to become a trade unionist without a trade union.’
‘There are no political parties, no elections, no independent legislature, no trades unions, no bar association, no independent judiciary, and no independent human rights organisations.’
‘Medical organisations, charities and trades unions have welcomed the move, but the country's licensed trade has threatened a legal battle saying a ban could cause 30,000 job losses.’
‘In recent times the old collective institutions, from the churches and community organisations to trades unions and political parties, have lost their roots and their purchase.’
‘These are the conditions under which workers begin to form trades unions and the workers direct their struggle against the employers.’
‘Democratic governments, democratic parties, trades unions and student organisations were all targets at various times.’
‘Therefore the trade union and labour movement now needs to get organised to fight back.’
‘The pressures exerted by political parties, trades unions, and professional groups contributed a great deal to this important development.’
‘And the trades unions reminded Labour, painfully, that power is not without responsibility to those who helped put you there.’
‘I pay particular tribute to the trades unions and union learning representatives who are genuinely liberating the lives of so many of their members.’
‘But this was not a stand-off between trades unions and Labour over pay.’
‘But there was a much cooler reaction from other campaigners in the trades unions and Labour movements.’
‘That organisation, like the trade union movement, can do a lot at national level.’
‘In the rolling reform demands, just weeks ago state officials and public sector workers set up another group, workers for change, which wants to establish independent trades unions.’
‘Three things kept Labour united: shared social democratic values; organisational inertia, and the trades unions.’
‘How long are workers going to follow a trade union that has no real perspective to offer?’
‘Some people are unkind enough to say it is a trade union and does not act in the public interest.’
‘It is estimated that less than one in four immigrant workers are represented by a trade union.’
association, alliance, league, guild
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