Sentences with phrase «affiliated union members»

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 members.

James Forsyth, the political editor of the Spectator, said that in a year or two Miliband ought to scrap Labour's complex leadership electoral system — which gives affiliated union members one - third of the vote — in favour of a one - member, one - vote arrangement.

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 level.

However, very few affiliated union members will be entitled to vote if a leadership contest is called after a 2015 election defeat due to the phasing of the scheme.

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.

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.

If the unions are able to mobilise their members to affiliate to Labour they could have more power than under the former electrical college system.

Now union members wishing to be affiliated party members have to individually and explicitly opt in to membership.

Individual members and registered supporters now vastly outnumbered affiliated members (that is, most of the union members eligible to vote).

Under the new one - member - one - vote rules, individuals could sign up as full members, as affiliated supporters for free via their unions or as registered supporters for just # 3.

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.

• 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 unions might run campaigns to convert members into affiliated supporters but it is not clear how many would be interested.

Another 50,000 union members may have been signed up as affiliated supporters by the Unite union alone.

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.

Only one of the 15 affiliated unions, Unison, currently offers its members an opt - out option.

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.

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

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.

After five years, the number of union members affiliated to the party will determine a union's voting power at the party conference.

Leader warns changes could be a risk as number of union members automatically affiliated to party will fall significantly

They are culled from a variety of sources — including our state affiliate, New York State United Teachers, and national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers — that you are entitled to as a union member in good standing; others are DOE discounts or discounts from individual companies.

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)

Once a union member has opted to pay the affiliation fee, they will then be contacted by the party to become an individual affiliated supporter at no extra cost.

Concern has been expressed that the 200,000 individual party members could be overwhelmed by 2.7 million new affiliated supporters from the unions.

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.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

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.

He dismisses suggestions that his plans for one person, one vote elections for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership will lead to ordinary members being swamped by a stage army of leftwing union activists recruited as affiliated supporters.

They will mean that only party members, affiliated union supporters and registered supporters can vote in Labour leadership contests.

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.

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

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.

According to the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC), an organization consisting of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions representing 100,000 members in New York City, project labor agreements (PLAs) with these terms for four projects valued at $ 345 million are in the process of being executed by unions in the industry.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

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.

The AFT is a key affiliate member of the AFL - CIO, the largest union federation in the country, and the White House may have recognized that Weingarten could present problems for their economic agenda.

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.

Miliband pledged to push on with his reforms, insisting they are necessary to stop union members being affiliated to Labour «in name only».

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.

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.