Sentences with phrase «british union workers»
Nevertheless, while British union workers and students took to the streets to express anger over jobs reductions and tuition hikes, the general reaction to Osborne's measures was nothing like what has been taking place on the Continent.
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents nearly 6 million British workers, said that the growing number of low - paid, self - employed workers who work irregular hours earn significantly less than conventional employees and therefore pay less tax and national insurance.
The B.C. Federation of Labour represents close to 500,000 members throughout British Columbia and includes many unions representing transit workers, including COPE Local 378, CUPE and BCGEU.
Nationalization, whether in the form of a monolithic public corporation, as in the old British system, or through so called «workers» control,» as in Yugoslavia, for example, merely puts the business firmly into the hands of bureaucratic or union elites, or indeed both.
A series of strikes in the culture and heritage sector opens with walkouts by British Library workers on Thursday (16) and Friday (17), the Public and Commercial Services union announces.
For the millions of people who work at the bottom end of the British economy, however, stronger trade unions could tilt the balance back toward workers, after decades in which bosses have enjoyed relatively free reign.
She joined the Labour Party after a few pints of lager in the Student Union bar while at Lancaster University and went on to work for the Christian Socialist Movement, also working part - time for Corbyn and later as a policy officer for the British Association of Social Workers.
About BFAWU: The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is the largest independent Trade Union in the food sector in the British Isles.
Arthur Deakin CH CBE PC (11 November 1890 — 1 May 1955) was a prominent British trade unionist who was acting general secretary of the Transport and General Workers» Union from 1940 and then general secretary from 1945 to 1955.
The union represents 5,000 workers in UK cultural institutions that have accepted money from BP or Shell, including Tate, the British Museum and National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.
On the other hand, Remain campaigners such as Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), warned repeatedly that «working people have a huge stake in the referendum because workers» rights are on the line» and the link between the UK's membership of the EU and better protection of workers» rights featured heavily in campaign material opposing Brexit.
The link between workers» rights and support for the EU amongst the British labour movement is not new and dates back to the 1980s when the TUC — faced with a domestic Conservative government hostile to trade unions and following Jacques Delors» speech advocating a social dimension to European integration — withdrew its support for the UK's withdrawal from the (then) EEC and instead adopted a positive approach to UK membership.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal (in a recent case identified as United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 1518 v. Sunrise Poultry Processors Ltd.) has confirmed that there is no general right for grievors or witnesses to avoid having their names disclosed in labour arbitration awards.
GMB, the union for British Gas, AA, meter readers and home care workers, welcome the judgement by the European Court that journeys made by workers without fixed or habitual place of work between their homes and the first and last customer of the day constitute working time.