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" 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. "
People
Business
Day
" 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! "
Work
Caring
Health
" 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. "
Need
Eyes
Focus
" 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. "
Worry
Job
Long
" 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. "
Rise
Balance
Cards
" Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead. "
Now
More
Dead
" From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic. "
New
Create
Financial
" 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. "
Growth
Way
Want
" I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that. "
Am
I Am
Feminist
" 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. "
Relationship
Individual
Family
" I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' "
Space
Cherish
Education
" I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies. "
Meetings
Be Happy
Argue
" 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. "
Mind
Finding
Know
" I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me. "
Me
Independent
Go
" 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. "
Problem
Solution
Opportunity
" I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women. "
Life
21st Century
Women
" I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. "
Great
Think
Dignity
" 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. "
Hungry
Freedom
Natural
" I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't. "
Want
Work
Security
" I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by. "
Woman
Man
Money
" My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty. "
First
Remember
Poverty
" My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. "
Service
Care
Patience
" Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever. "
Work
Strong
Speak
" Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking. "
Ideas
People
Box
" RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society. "
Challenge
Society
Way
" 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. "
School
Retirement
Media
" The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered. "
Government
Work
See
" The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s. "
Last
Important
Now
" The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this. "
Image
Men
Think
" The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do. "
Money
Work
Women
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