Quotes By Frances O..Grady

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

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.

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

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.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

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.