Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day’s pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that’s badly out of touch with ordinary people’s lives. I’d absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The TUC’s new slogan ‘a future that works’ sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
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. Frances O'Grady Read Quote
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 Read Quote