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The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

— Fritz Sauckel

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

— Jacques Delors

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

— Barbara Castle

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

— Hilda Solis

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

— Jim DeMint

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

— Ted Lindsay

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

— Michael Moore

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

— Ray Stannard Baker

✗Opposing Perspectives

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

— Lech Walesa

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

— David Blunkett

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

— James Surowiecki