#rig

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#god-given #god-given right #make #nothing #ourselves

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#beer #film #god #having #i

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#else #everywhere #here #losing #mideast

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#amazing #engines #find #get #material

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#away #bright #gone #gray #i

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#anything #began #cockroach #desire #done

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

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

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#come #corporations #freedom #goes #half

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #among #attack #britain #collectors