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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cuts #going #job #keeping #less

All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on! ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#caring #chance #clearly #conditions #equal

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#case #critics #decline #identify #labor

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#good #good ideas #ideas #lots #more

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#day #decent #decently #gives #good

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#appetite #become #cuts #deregulation #even

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#balance #before #britain #cards #case

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#deliver #devices #economies #expensive #governments

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#believed #between #came #employer #expected

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#bills #even #finding #i #i do