Sentences with phrase «affiliated union levy»

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• Require all unions, not just those affiliated to Labour, to ask each existing union member whether they wish to pay the political levy and then repeat the question every five years.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is intending to offer the chance of becoming an affiliated supporter to every CWU levy payer before the General Election.

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.

Members of affiliated unions will be asked to give positive consent if they wish some of the political levy to go to Labour.

Labour party's national executive votes to support recruitment of union political levy payers as affiliated supporters

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.

A member of an affiliated union pays a political levy automatically, unless they opt out.

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.

GMB — the third biggest union affiliate with 617,000 members and a levy of more than # 2 million — announced it will ballot members on how much it donates to Labour.

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.

The rules will apply to all 4 million existing political levy payers in unions affiliated to Labour, and those who are not.