The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

They should actively participate in the affairs of the international trade union movement and in the formulation of international rules based on independence, equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other's affairs.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.