Quotes by Frances O'Grady

Frances O'Grady

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.

Giving

People

Voice

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.

Cutting

Eye

Focus

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.

Government

Growth

Stripes

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

Feminist

No Problem

Problem

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.

Individual

Joining

Unions

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.

Children

Mind

Worry

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There’s very little dignity in parenthood. It’s a great leveller.

Feet

Mother

Thinking

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.

Men

Thinking

Two

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.

Alternatives

Downing Street

Faces

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.

Eye

Hero

Teenager

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Downing Street

Economic Models

Eye

Faces

Fall

Feet

Feminist

Firsts

Focus

Giving

Government

Growth

Hero

Husband

Individual

Joining

Mean

Media

Men

Mind

Mother

No Problem

Opportunity

Oxford

People

Possibility Of Change

Problem

Profound

Real

Retirement

Rights

School

Stripes

Stuff

Tape

Teenager

Thinking

Two

Unions

Unique

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Quotes by Frances O'Grady

Frances O'Grady

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.

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.

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.

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

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.

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.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There’s very little dignity in parenthood. It’s a great leveller.

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.

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.

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.

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