Sentences with phrase «while labour day»

While Labour Day evolved into a celebration of work, employers and life, May Day was a protest against the status quo, government, corporations and other institutions that refused to give working people their deserved share of the economic pie.

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According to Statistics Canada, the employment services industry grew from $ 8.3 billion in 2009 to $ 11.5 billion in 2012; and while this category includes everything from executive headhunters to day labour, other data suggests it's temp work driving the increase.

A rise in energy stocks led by BP, boosted by strong first - quarter results, kept Britain's FTSE afloat on Tuesday while most European bourses were closed for Labour Day.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- A rise in energy stocks led by BP, boosted by strong first - quarter results, kept Britain's FTSE afloat on Tuesday while most European bourses were closed for Labour Day.

Instead of spending the whole day wondering if I was in labour, I had a lazy morning while Leo was in play school and then we spent the whole afternoon making monster crafts and playing with play sand at the kitchen table.

I just couldn't see how another baby could compare to my perfect, beautiful little girl.It was so strange to have the day booked and planned and driving to the hospital in a calm state (ie not in labour and leaking water while hubby drives me the 150kms from Saldanha to Cape Town).

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

By the next day, Labour MPs were as unconvinced by their leader as they were before phone - hacking while a much - hyped public Q&A event provided yet more material for his critics to comment on how odd he is.

Speaking in Lokoja while addressing a rally held by Organised Labour to mark this year's May Day celebration, Bello explained that the N20 billion was the first tranche of the N50 billion applied for to clear salary arrears of the state and local government workers.

While Labour offers full support, we continue to call for ministers to provide certainty over the full route to the north by bringing forward a single hybrid bill, which could be done without delaying delivery of HS2 by one day.

UKIP, under the rumbustious Nigel Farage, have fallen back from the glory days of the May local elections but are still in double figures, while Labour holds a narrowing but still decisive lead over the Tories.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

Governor Ambode, who spoke at the May Day Rally, held at the Agege Stadium, Lagos, while attributing the industrial harmony and peace in the State to the maturity and responsibility of the labour unions, applauded them for adopting alternative dispute resolution mechanisms rather than resort to industrial actions.

While some Labour MPs have bitten their tongues over Tory plans to limit child tax credits to the first two children, Phillips speaks her mind as we sit down at one of the tables behind Portcullis House on a hot summer day.

One day, while sitting at his desk bored out of his skull — I'd run out of work for him — he started leafing through a booklet that I had brought in called Labour: A Year In Review.

They will talk again this afternoon, while Mr Watson also plans to discuss the situation with the leaders of other Labour - backing unions Unison, the GMB and CWU in the coming days.

Labour accused the Lib Dems of already being intent on joining with the Conservatives, while Lib Dem sources suggested senior members of the negotiating team had no interest in a coalition, despite Gordon Brown's sacrifice the day before.

Apparently Labour didn't bother with daily polling during the Tory conference this year, so while the Conservatives were seeing the polls rapidly reverse as the days went past, Labour were still sailing merrily onwards towards an early election until the weekly polling figures arrived...

Another day dominated by Conservative claims that a Labour - SNP government would destroy the UK, while Labour attempts to shift the debate back on to the NHS, says Andrew Neil.

The MP told ITV News that backing for Mr Corbyn «on the ground» is falling every day the Labour leadership drama continues, while Mr Smith is picking up support within the party.

Labour pointed out that the Maastricht treaty received 23 days of parliamentary scrutiny, while the Lisbon treaty was debated for 11 days.

Four years ago we lost over 100 seats while Labour gained 500 on the day they took a drubbing in the General Election.

This meant anyone who had joined Labour since January 12 was not eligible to vote, and while many who signed up in the last contest as registered supporters for just # 3, they now have to pay # 25, and only have a two - day window to sign up.

While Labour MPs who've quit under Corbyn are ten - a-penny in Westminster these days Reed has the unique distinction of having been the first.

The former Labour leader faces four more days of fronting the current affairs and music show while Jeremy Vine is on holiday.

The National President, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba disclosed this on Tuesday while addressing workers at the Eagles Square, Abuja to mark this year International Workers» Day.

Greens have never known a Climate Secretary superior to Miliband, while he has had affinity with those that life has dealt a tough hand, who the SNP and UKIP argue Labour has distanced from, since his days at Haverstock School.

Speaking to BBC Radio Five Live following his election, Murphy said that while he disagreed with the «branch office» theory, he would not be consulting London on policy:» [t] he days in which anyone needed permission from the Labour Party anywhere else in the United Kingdom to make a decision about what happens in Scotland are gone and they're gone for good.»

Ms Greenwood published the speech on her website just a day after fellow Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire revealed she had been appointed to and removed from a frontbench post while receiving cancer treatment and without being told by Mr Corbyn.

On an average day, we sit while driving to work, and even the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn apparently prefers to sit while commuting on the train, many people also sit at work for around 8 hours a day, and after another commute, then sit in front of the TV for on average 3 hours a night, before going to bed for 7 to 8 hours.

Its political battles, formed in the dark days of the 1970s, won, the Tory party struggled to identify itself or its purpose, and it collapsed into its own internal chaos while the Labour party had rescued itself from its own malaise by cutting the party machine off from its traditional constituency, and reinvented its image.

While I'm sure that many students are not even thinking about the library while it's still hot and humid outside (and certainly not before Labour Day), the time will come when you need to knuckle down and actually get some study and research done (and it will come sooner than you thiWhile I'm sure that many students are not even thinking about the library while it's still hot and humid outside (and certainly not before Labour Day), the time will come when you need to knuckle down and actually get some study and research done (and it will come sooner than you thiwhile it's still hot and humid outside (and certainly not before Labour Day), the time will come when you need to knuckle down and actually get some study and research done (and it will come sooner than you think!).

While reading the local paper and seeing all the recent DUI and assault charges laid this past Labour Day weekend I am reminded of a few past clients that were puzzled about when and if they should disclose a previous... Continue reading →