Sentences with phrase «affiliated trade union members»

Earlier this year in the wake of the row over candidate selection in Falkirk, Ed Miliband announced that he wanted to reform the relationship between Labour and its affiliated trade union members.

So the idea that Labour would be left without any income if affiliated trade union members stopped contributing on the scale that the GMB figures suggest is evidently an exaggeration.

Under the new rules, affiliated trade union members will have to choose to become a supporter or member of the Labour Party.

This has now been changed to one - member - one - vote, although affiliated trade union members can sign up to become affiliated members and get a vote that way.

Not exact matches

It's a fair system — the trade union member has to proactively sign up for affiliated status.

The previous structure gave votes to three blocks — MPs, trade unions and other affiliated organisations, and party members.

As I've pointed out before, the party's tripartite electoral college (divided between MPs / MEPs, party members, and affiliated trade unions and socialist societies) means that some votes are worth significantly more than others.

Instead Miliband will insist the switch to an opt - in system, in which trade union members actively choose to affiliate with Labour, is needed because it could restore Labour's status as a mass membership party of the people.

The NPF is made up of 204 members representing parliament, European and devolved assemblies, local government, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and others, and individual members of the Labour Party, who elect representatives through an all member ballot.

The New York State AFL - CIO is a federation of 3,000 affiliated public sector, private sector, and building trades unions throughout the state representing 2.5 million members, retirees and their families.

A poll of 2,010 Labour Party members and Labour - supporting members of affiliated trade unions was conducted between 3 and 14 September 2010.

Trade union members who actively want to be part of the Labour family will be asked to make a conscious decision to opt in and then to affiliate.

Most members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party would NOT vote Labour if a general election were held this week, according to... (Comments: 49)

The leader is elected by the PLP (which is made up of all Labour MPs), trade union members affiliated to the Labour party, and ordinary party members.

• I am a trade union member, and as my trade union is affiliated to the Labour party, I was told I would have a vote in the leadership election.

He wants to stop trade unions whose members have voted to have a political fund and which have decided to use part of that fund to affiliate to the party from doing so.

When trade unions sign up their levy - payers as individual members, all they're actually doing is shifting them from one category of membership to another... to a category that still has the right to select candidates that affiliated members used to have.

Trade union halves official number of members affiliated to the party in wake of Ed Miliband's voting reforms

The Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation is the co-ordinating structure that supports the policy and campaign activities of affiliated union members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local lUnion and Labour Party Liaison Organisation is the co-ordinating structure that supports the policy and campaign activities of affiliated union members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local lunion members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local level.

The Labour Party is a membership organisation consisting of individual members and Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and the Co-operative Party, with which it has an electoral agreement.

Affiliated supporters (AS): these are members of a socialist society or members of an affiliated trade union who pay the political levy, who are on the electoral register, and who have signed up as an AS online or through their orgAffiliated supporters (AS): these are members of a socialist society or members of an affiliated trade union who pay the political levy, who are on the electoral register, and who have signed up as an AS online or through their orgaffiliated trade union who pay the political levy, who are on the electoral register, and who have signed up as an AS online or through their organisation.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

A recent YouGov poll revealed that 60 % of trade union members affiliated to Labour believe Mliband's reforms are «sensible.»

Where not otherwise prevented they shall also be a member of a trade union affiliated to the TUC or considered by the NEC as a bona fide trade union and contribute to the political fund of that union.

Voting for members of trade unions and affiliated organisations closed on Tuesday.

Apparently, David's lead among the parliamentary third of Labour's electoral college was not big enough to compensate for his relative weakness among the other two sections, which are ordinary party members and affiliated trades - union members.

On our figures, full Labour party members (including those paying the reduce student and unwaged rate) show Burnham defeating Corbyn by 50.5 - 49.5 % - a statistical dead heat; however, among those who have the vote in the current contest because they have paid a # 3 registration fee or signed up as a member of an affiliated trade union, Corbyn is well ahead, with 57 % of first preferences and a 69 - 31 % lead in the final round.

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

The membership of each of Labour's policy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politicians.

The reality is that non-party members have always been able to vote - the affiliated societies section can include non-members, and the trade unions section already includes plenty of non-Labour members.

The election took place using Alternative Vote in an electoral college, with a third of the votes allocated to MPs and MEPs, a third to individual members of the Labour Party, and a third to individual members of affiliated organisations, mainly trade unions.

The Scottish Executive Committee is made up of representatives of party members, elected members and party affiliates, for example, trade unions and socialist societies.

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.

In September 2017, it was reported that the Party had 21,500 members and 9,500 affiliated through trade unions and other groups, making a total of 31,000 people associated with the Party.

In the Sun tomorrow YouGov have a poll of Labour party members, and of members of affiliated trade unions.

Samples of party members and members of Labour affiliated trade unions were polled, and MPs» preferences were based upon research by the website Left Foot Forward.

Whether in Scotland or in the rest of the UK, Labour will never flourish if it treats it's members and affiliated trade unions as a revenue source.

In all we polled 2,609 members of affiliated trade unions, but we have excluded those — the majority — who are not Labour supporters.

The new leader is elected by an electoral college where the votes of MPs and MEPs count for a third of the total, the votes of Labour Party members count for a third and votes of trade unions and other affiliate organisations» members count for a third.

We weighted the raw data to our estimates of the age, gender and social class of party members and the members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party.

The boring but important bit: between July 27th and 29th we polled 1,184 Labour Party members and 1,102 Labour - supporting members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party.

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

The move comes on top of the government's trade union bill which is expected to cut Labour's funding from the unions by as much as # 8m, as members will be forced to opt in to subscriptions rather than being automatically affiliated with the choice of opting out.

Likewise, in the Trade Union ballots, I use the Labour List poll as a starting point but adjust them to reflect the likely effect of Union executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union memUnion ballots, I use the Labour List poll as a starting point but adjust them to reflect the likely effect of Union executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union memUnion executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union memunion members.

Only full party members - not trade union «affiliated supporters» - will choose parliamentary and council candidates

At the moment, some Labour members can have more than one vote - if they are an MP, for example, they might also have a vote as a trade union member, party member and member of an «affiliated society» such as the Fabian Society.

The details of members of affiliated trade unions are held by those unions alone.

Only full party members - not trade - union «affiliated supporters» - will choose parliamentary and council candidates

In 2014, Labour changed the rules for future contests to move to a «one member, one vote» system of party members, affiliated trade union supporters and registered supporters.

Voting took place between 17 November and 10 December using the three - tier electoral college system, which gives parliamentarians, individual members, and affiliated bodies such as trade unions an equal say in the outcome.