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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

Topics: Attitudes Century Dragged Life Need People Suspect Terms Towards Walks Who Women 21St Century

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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.

~Frances O'Grady

Topics: Against Cable Claims Coalition Come Cut Day Dead Each Each Day East George More Now Out Outside Pay Plans Regional Seats South

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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

Topics: Approach Causes Crash Dominant Economic Greatest Important Indifference Inequality Last Legs Letting Market Now Rip Seen Since Thirty Years 1930S

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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

Topics: Austerity Case Critics Decline Identify Labor Make Opportunity Our Part Paul Powerful Problem Reich Rightly Robert Same Solution Trade Uk

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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

Topics: Austerity Best Challenge Deficit Deficit Reduction Economic Even Failing Future Model New Own Politics Profound Rapid Reduction Sets Short-Sighted Slogan Terms Vision Works

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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

Topics: Banking Deliver Devices Economies Expensive Governments Growth Hard Hard Way Learned Left Losers Markets Now Own Pick Stripes Want Way

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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

Topics: According Come Countries Data Imf Investment Out Poor Record Seven Seventh Since Top Uk

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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

Topics: Ashes Chance Crash Create Democratic Economic Equal Financial More New Settlement Sustainable

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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.

~Frances O'Grady

Topics: Always Believed Between Came Employer Expected Family Fundamentally Individual Joining Relationship Thing Unequal Union Where Worker I Came

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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

Topics: Although Appetite Become Cuts Even Eyes Far Focus Further Impatient Increasingly Keep Lib Lot Need Our Right Shrinking State Suspect Tax Tax Cuts Tories Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Activist

Born: November 9th, 1959

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