Concern has been expressed that the 200,000 individual party members could be overwhelmed by 2.7 million new
affiliated supporters from the unions.
Not exact matches
The first is
affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded
from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.
It is understood that the longstanding system for paying the affiliation fee in the public service union Unison already meets the party's proposed consent criteria, putting Unison ahead of other unions, with a pool of 400,000 collectively
affiliated members
from which the party can recruit immediately as individually
affiliated supporters.
In addition registered
supporters — not drawn
from unions — will be able to sign up with same rights as
affiliated supporters.
These papers — produced by the National Policy Forum (NPF)-- represent what we've learned
from talking to members,
supporters,
affiliates, businesses and charities over the last three years, as well as the input of the Shadow Cabinet Policy Review.
GOP senators also bristle at Democrats» claims that the Republican opposition is because of campaign contributions
from National Rifle Association -
affiliated groups and
supporters.
[111] However, he benefited
from a large influx of new members as well as new
affiliated and registered
supporters introduced under Miliband.
The sitting leader won 313,409 votes (61.8 %)
from members, registered
supporters and union
affiliates compared to 193,229 (38.2 %) for rival Owen Smith.
Reflecting increased interest among the young, university cities and towns recorded some of the biggest rises, with Bath jumping
from 300 to 1,322 members (911 full members, 120
affiliated supporters and 291 registered
supporters) and Colchester
from 200 - 250 to almost 1,000.
Since some leading trade union members of the NEC are known to favour circulating ballot papers to all levy papers — as was the previous practice — with votes being counted provided that levy - payers tick the box to opt into
affiliated supporter status, the union influence may in fact not change so much
from the process that selected Ken Livingstone.
Finally
from December 2014 constituencies should be able to see
affiliated and registered
supporters on membersnet.
In Nigeria, a government committee is looking into claims that SCL Elections, a Cambridge Analytica
affiliate, organized rallies to dissuade opposition
supporters from voting against Jonathan's then - ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007.
From September 23 through September 30, Planned Parenthood's
supporters, peer educators, campus chapters, and
affiliates across the country will highlight the importance of comprehensive sex education programs.