Unionism Quotes

Unionism Quote of the day

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.