Sentences with phrase «affiliated trade union membership»

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For Labour the question was the balance between individual and affiliated membership, and the role of the trades unions was undoubtedly strengthened by wartime mobilisation.

Instead Miliband will insist the switch to an opt - in system, in which trade union members actively choose to affiliate with Labour, is needed because it could restore Labour's status as a mass membership party of the people.

When trade unions sign up their levy - payers as individual members, all they're actually doing is shifting them from one category of membership to another... to a category that still has the right to select candidates that affiliated members used to have.

The Labour Party is a membership organisation consisting of individual members and Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and the Co-operative Party, with which it has an electoral agreement.

Similarly membership of an affiliated trade union grants the right to vote for the leader and deputy leader, but not for local candidate selection.

The membership of each of Labour's policy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politicians.

That result (overall 51.5 % vs 48.5 %) was based on Harris securing the support of the AMs / MPs and the trade unions / affiliates but losing the membership block.

In addition, we weighted the trade union data to the most recent published figures for the overall membership of each affiliated trade union.

How fair is it that 9 per cent of the membership of affiliated trade unions carries the same electoral weight as 72 per cent of Labour party individual membership?