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Frances O'Grady Biography

Frances Lorraine O'Grady (born 9 November 1959) is the General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), the first woman to hold that position.

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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.

Decently, Giving, People, Reward, Voice

All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities. . . the list goes on!

Caring, Chance, Equal, Equal Pay, Responsibility

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

Firsts, Gender, People, Seeing, Wish

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

Alternatives, Downing, Downing Street, Economic, Faces, Meetings

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

Film, Force, Independent, Kids, Like, Popular

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.

Against, Come, Cutting, East, Mps, Vince

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.

Government, Leaders, Opportunity, People

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Connolly, Eye, Hero, Man, Teenager

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.

Already, Impact, Jobs, People, Strong

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. '

Education, Giving, Ideas, Space, System

There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.

Chains, Economy, Experts, Parts, Sides, Tough Times

A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.

Deliver, Heart, Jobs, Livelihoods, Strong, Unions

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.

Believed, Came, Individual, Joining, Union, Unions

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

Cards, Crisis, Economic, Gdp, Growth, Years

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

Appreciate, Government, Husband, Husbands, Implication, Presumably

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Decent, Jobs, Security, Society, Want

Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.

Course, Europe, Hold, Regardless, Thinking, Years

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Agreement, Deeply, Patience, Running, Sensible, Services

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.

Cutting, Dems, Eye, Focus, Suspect, Tories

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.

Children, Know, Mind, Worry

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