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• With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.

  Frances O'Grady

  Real, Fall, People

  "Cost of living crisis: We are £40 a week worse off under the Tories" by Stephen Hayward, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

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

  Frances O'Grady

  People, Wish, Firsts

  "Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

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• When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  Frances O'Grady

  Daughter, Mother, Expectations

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• 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.

  Frances O'Grady

  Children, Worry, Mind

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• 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.

  Frances O'Grady

  Retirement, School, Media

  "Forget 1979. This time we'll unite beleaguered Britain" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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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.

  Frances O'Grady

  Voice, People, Giving

  "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.

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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

  Eye, Cutting, Focus

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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

  Powerful, Opportunity, Austerity

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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

  Country, Data, Imf

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• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  Frances O'Grady

  Mother, Thinking, Feet

  "'Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?'". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

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• 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

  Opportunity, Government, People

  "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.

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• 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.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Heart

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