Sentences with phrase «about leaving a union»

Set aside for a moment the ludicrous hypocrisy of a Tory Brexiteer government running a facsimile of the Remain campaign's economic arguments about leaving a union, the threat that will be articulated is not only real but potentially greater than in 2014.

Not exact matches

Looking at the current state of the EU, not only is the U.K. about to set a precedent by leaving the union but there are other issues to resolve.

But for a fee of 145 euros (about $ 154) e-residents can register companies in Estonia, no matter where they live, gaining automatic access to the EU's giant common market — about 440 million once Britain leaves the union.

Around 5,500 firms registered in the UK rely on the European Union's passporting rights for the financial services sector, and they turn over about # 9 billion in revenue.There has been a surge in applications for Irish passports following the UK's vote to leave the European Union.

Rosengren, an historically dovish Fed policymaker who has become more confident about hiking rates this year, cited Britain's vote to leave the European Union as an example of U.S. resistance to shocks from abroad.

«We are considering potential changes to the UK passport after the UK has left the European Union,» the immigration minister, Robert Goodwill, said in reply to a parliamentary question about reintroducing Britain's «old blue style passport» from the Conservative MP Julian Knight.

For months, the world's financial markets have been sanguine — complacent, even — about the risk of the U.K. voting to leave the European Union.

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

The following 12 months brought market volatility linked to China's economic weakness and later concerns about the fallout from Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 611 points, or about 3.4 %, on Friday as global stock, currency and other markets convulsed in response to Britain's surprising vote to leave the European Union.

The Fed appeared to be nearing another hike in June, but held off because of a weak U.S. jobs report and worries about the possible impact on financial markets of the then - pending British vote on whether to leave the European Union.

Many of the challenges standing in the way of growth were exposed when Britain voted last month to leave the European Union (EU), which I've been writing about for the past few weeks.

Greece is about to leave the European Monetary Union and Spain won't be far behind.

The employees claim Tesla security guards told them to leave company property while handing out pamphlets about the union on two separate occasions.

Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union there has been more debate about the future of London's large financial services industry than any other sector of the economy.

Investors were concerned about Great Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

While the United States has been embroiled in pre-presidential election drama and speculation about what might trigger the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and multiple central banks worldwide turned to a negative interest - rate policy in an attempt to stimulate growth.

The Left Platform, which holds about 40 seats in parliament and is composed of former communists and others closely aligned with labor unions, could defeat the government if its members vote against the plan.

Bennett took to the union's Facebook page at noon, about an hour before the district's plans were released, pledging to defend teachers» «personal leave, comp time and your contractual right to work in safe conditions.»

The companies surveyed - the biggest or most internationally - focused banks, insurers, asset managers, private equity firms and exchanges in Britain - were responding to questions about their plans in the event of a so - called «hard» Brexit, where the UK would leave not only the EU but also the single market and Customs Union.

Europe has rolled from one crisis to the next, with the UK vote to leave the European Union in June 2016 shocking the pro-euro establishment and raising concerns about a domino effect.

Over the last year or so, we've heard plenty about «Soft Brexit» or «Hard Brexit», following the referendum vote to leave the European Union.

If substantial paternity / parental leave were made available to UK fathers and were paid at reasonable rates and if this were taken up by substantial numbers of fathers this would require a revolution in thinking by government, employers, trades unions and others about the work / care nexus which could benefit not only fathers but mothers and children too (Green & Parker, 2006; Lewis & Cooper, 2005)-- and, ultimately, employers too.

But Lancman has proven himself to be «exceptionally hardworking» on progressive issues that the left - leaning unions that dominated the party care about — including standing up publicly to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the millionaire's tax last year.

A lot has been made in the press and in the recent parliamentary debates about the moral obligation for members of parliament to respect «the will of the people» as expressed in the narrow victory for leaving the European Union in the Brexit referendum of last June.

Jeremy Corbyn is known to be privately relaxed about the prospect of leaving the European Union if Labour is in power.

One of those former advisers, Nick Timothy voted for Brexit and was passionate about the need to leave the customs union.

It's very interesting, and something of a giveaway about this guy's attitude, that he thinks that if MPs, councillors, union executives and general secretaries were somehow removed there would be no one left in the Labour Party.

The counterintuitive solution being talked about most on the Scottish Labour left in the case of a Corbyn victory is to demand full autonomy from a Corbyn - run UK party, and to use a newly empowered conference (alongside new policy - making bodies soon to be established in Unite and potentially in other unions) to restate the socialist aims of the party.

Almost all our arguments - about transition, about the customs union, about EU citizens, about the Irish border - are about the EU working with us to neutralise the risks we have ourselves created by leaving.

If so, we should all be concerned about the potential abuse of its newfound powers after the UK has left the European Union.

What about the mandatory volunteers that unions send out that are supposed to be reported as monetary contributions but are either left off illegally or there are loopholes allowing them to not list it?

At that time, the one - time liberal darling who took on Lieberman over the Iraq War drew the wrath of labor unions for his reservations about a bill mandating employers provide paid sick leave.

She also admitted: «We now have a job to do to convince the electorate that we are party that is about more than leaving the European Union.»

Iannucci did not provide any clues about the approach that either man will take but he recently revealed that Partridge would hold a similar view to the Daily Mail when it came to Britain leaving the European Union.

No decision has yet been crystallised about whether the UK believes it can afford to leave the EU customs union.

Mr Paterson - who was sacked as environment secretary during July's government reshuffle - told the Sunday Times MPs were left «in the dark» about what was going to be offered to Scotland in a bid to keep the union together.

The meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working - class and left - wing organisations — trades unions represented about one third of the membership of the TUC delegates.

Union president Steve Cassidy, in a statement, said the restoration by Cuomo means his members «will never have to worry about leaving themselves and their families destitute should they be seriously injured in the line of duty.»

Nigel Farage has dismissed a row about whether UKIP supports deporting European Union migrants - if the UK votes to the leave the EU - as a «minor confusion»

They don't care about Westminster gossip, attacking the «Leave» campaign, or which prominent union leader supports the EU.

Anne Marie Morris casually employed the racist term to make a point about the UK leaving the European Union without a deal.

It's about leaving the customs union, which is a frankly insane thing to do.

Or you can leave and stay in the customs union, which would be worth about 4.5 % on GDP, according to an average taken from studies by the Treasury, NIESR and the Centre for Economic Performance, and the London School of Economics.

Their decision to leave the institution of the European Union was an expression of that desire - a statement about how they want their democracy to work.

When asked about his role on the ethics board, Goldstein left a message with the Times Union that said he has recently retired from both Columbia and his ethics board position.

«I stood for the Labour leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the party were fully represented.

This week's episode of «New York Now,» the award - winning co-production of WMHT and the Times Union, features Karen DeWitt of New York State Public Radio in conversation with State University Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who's about to leave the post that she has held for eight years.

PEF president Ken Brynien, left, and CSEA president Danny Donohue, right, speak during a news conference about state worker layoffs on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at PEF Headquarters in Latham, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

«A negotiation with the European Union will need to begin under a new prime minister and I think it is right that this new prime minister take the decision about when to trigger article 50 and start the formal and legal process of leaving the EU,» he said.