Sentences with phrase «labour group said»

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Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Although a similar agreement was signed in 2012 in Indonesia, labour advocacy groups said the Bangladeshi agreement is unprecedented because not only is it legally binding, but it commits brands and suppliers to changing their pricing and sourcing practices.

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

The government is working through the multiple issues before making a final decision and has encouraged employers and labour groups to not walk away from the committee's work, said Stephen Laskowski, president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

First Cobalt says the acquisition will help it position itself as a North American - focused cobalt company, as buyers of the metal look to diversify from a widespread reliance on production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where human rights groups have raised concerns of child labour in mining operations.

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

Trans - Tasman building materials group Fletcher Building says Australia's labour market is becoming increasingly uncompetitive and wages were as much as 40 per cent higher than in New Zealand.

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It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alllabour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

As I say with a Tory biased media and low readership of newspapers among lower socio - economic groups it will be hard to get Labour's message out.

If Thatcherism resembled the Man from Del Monte, forever saying no, then New Labour has been more like the old TSB, the bank that liked to say yes: Thatcherism upset too many interest groups, but New Labour has shied away from the tough decisions.

Labour said 13 of the 17 Russell Group universities are planning to charge the maximum # 9,000, while across all universities 95 % are planning to charge more than the anticipated average fee of # 7,500.

Labour MP and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Violence, Jess Phillips, said the Bureau's findings and the move to change refuge support was «very, very concerning.»

He said: «When you look at the list of demands or achievements, which Plaid have managed to extort from Labour, then I'm afraid to say that Leanne Wood has proved to be a very cheap date indeed, because the power that she had in her hands, with assistance both from the Conservative group and from the Ukip group has actually not been used to its full potential.»

Neal Lawson, chair of the left - wing Compass pressure group, said: «Labour can never win on who kicks down hardest on the poorest.

Grassroots campaign group Momentum said its thousands of activists had helped to boost Labour's showing in a series of key areas, including Trafford, where the Conservatives lost control, and Wandsworth.

«I'm absolutely ecstatic,» said Andrew Western, the leader of the Labour group on Trafford council.

However, the same can not be said of the older age group: older men and women now appear to be similar in their relative support for the Conservatives and Labour.

In the final week of the election, the group says 42.2 % of Facebook users in Canterbury viewed its videos, while in Sheffield Hallam, where the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was unceremoniously ejected by a Labour candidate, the percentage was 55.9 %.

The group, which includes the former Labour Cabinet secretary John Denham, MPs Jon Cruddas, Liam Byrne, Shabana Mahmood and Sam Tarry — who was a co-director of Corbyn's re-election campaign, said the challenge was «to give Labour a distinct English voice».

Other reports from the early years included Robert Goodwill urging a speedy exit from the EPP European Parliamentary group, Edward Leigh advocating school choice, Owen Paterson condemning Labour's reorganisation of police forces, and Julian Brazier saying arts degrees leave students worse off.

No less than 68 % of this group of Yes voting 2010 Labour supporters now say that they will vote SNP in May.

Many Labour candidates, particularly in northern seats away from the major cities, say Corbyn's leadership is still problematic among some groups of voters, and the most pessimistic believe May could still secure a much - increased majority of 80 to 100.

In a letter, Compass, the left - of - centre pressure group, together with Cruddas and other Labour activists, said: «It would be a hugely missed opportunity if the party reforms instigated fell short of the mark in making Labour more democratic.»

The pamphlet, by the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society and Policy Network thinktank, admits Labour has lost ground among the DE bottom social group but says it will only restore its electoral fortunes if it performs better among white - collar and skilled workers, who are strongly represented in marginal seats in the South and Midlands.

Giving evidence at the home affairs select committee on Monday, the Labour leader said that he had used the phrase to describe the militant groups during a meeting in parliament in 2009.

He relaunched the group along with the new vice chair Suella Fernandes MP, and it took off with a flourish, persuading, as Baker put it, «Sixty Conservatives plus colleagues from the DUP, Labour and UKIP» to sign a statement saying that ««The UK must leave the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Customs Union», the so - called «Single Market»» — the position we now know as hard Brexit.

And Progress, the Blairite group within the Labour party, is backing a petition saying Shawcroft should resign from Labour's national executive committee.

Momentum «entryists» trying to take over Labour, claims Tom Watson Pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum are «aggressive and stupid», says Michael Dugher Momentum to officially debate Labour party membership

Pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum are «aggressive and stupid», says Michael Dugher Momentum seeks to push left - wingers into key internal Labour positions Momentum «entryists» trying to take over Labour, claims Tom Watson

Labour leader's pledge to hold referendum only if sovereignty is ceded to EU will encourage investment, say business groups

But Labour's intervention was welcomed by Sir Martin Sorrell, head of advertising and media group WPP, who said: «I would say not having a referendum is better than having one.

In what they describe as the «first week in our adult lives that the Labour party has been a party of opposition» the group say they think electing him will «make sure that weeks like this are numbered».

In 1979, internal crisis rocked Labour as activist group, the Campaign for Labour Democracy, struggled with the Parliamentary Labour Party for a greater say in party management.

, and pretty much said that having the secularist group Labour Humanists within the Party alienated people and was divisive.

Trafford MBC's former Conservative leader Sean Anstee has said campaigning by hundreds of activists from outside the area was an important «contributory factor» in his party losing overall control of the council - but said it is not «cut and dry» Labour will take control after becoming the largest group.

She said today she had become frustrated with the inaction of the Labour group in Brent, which she said had failed to address a recent spate of murders and shootings in Kensal Green.

Hodges says the Labour leader should take decisive action to tackle the problem, including winding up the left - wing Momentum group.

«I call on every Lib Dem who supports a low carbon future to join Labour, businesses and environmental groups and vote for a 2030 decarbonisation target,» he said.

Momentum chief Jon Lansman was recorded saying that if Len McCluskey was re-elected as Unite general secretary, the union would affiliate to his group rather than to Labour.

McGovern says she stood for election as Progress chair because the group had reached out to her when she was a councillor and she is keen use it as a vehicle to help other Labour campaigners «who are at the moment at risk of being left out».

The Labour leader was quizzed by the BBC as the so - called Islamic State group has said it carried out the multiple attacks in Paris.

In response to the Labour party's proposals on childcare, Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: «This proposal is great news for hard - pressed families struggling with the cost of childcare.

In a speech tonight to Progress, the New Labour pressure group, Tessa Jowell, a leading advocate in Cabinet, will say that mutualism offers a future for public services and the means to recapture a trust destroyed by the recession and the expenses crisis.

Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover and a member of the leftwing Campaign Group, which is especially opposed to co-operation with the Liberal Democrats, said: «The Liberals are the second biggest party in Sheffield and other towns.

«The majority of British people recognise that a fourth term of a Labour administration, a weaker one, potentially shored up by perhaps a Simon Hughes - led group of Lib Dems is the nightmare scenario,» he said.