Sentences with phrase «affiliated union supporters»

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

Not exact matches

None of the NDP supporters I have spoken with have been able to clearly explain how the union - affiliate vote process will work.

The suggestion is that that Unite and other affiliated unions have accepted that Miliband and his supporters will not budge on this — and so they are making the best of a bad job.

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.

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

Affiliated supporters will likely lean to the left and unions such as Unite are continuing to sign up more every day.

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

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.

Near the close of the meeting, some trade unions and Labour's left suggested the reforms could be ditched in five years» time if it emerged that the plans to recruit union political levypayers as affiliated supporters were not working or were putting the party in financial jeopardy.

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.

Labour will have a direct relationship with affiliated supporters for the first time, without unions acting as an intermediary.

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.

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.

In addition registered supporters — not drawn from unions — will be able to sign up with same rights as affiliated supporters.

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

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.

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

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.

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.

However, the «registered supporters» would be included in the part of Labour's electoral college which includes the unions and affiliated socialist societies (the Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership votes will be cut.

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

Our survey sample is composed of 1,236 members of the Labour selectorate, with the representation levels of difference membership types (member / supporter / union affiliate) based on how each group turned out in the 2015 leadership election.

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

The 506,438 votes cast were split into full members, # 25 «registered supporters» and affiliates who got a vote through their union.

The 506,438 votes cast were split into full members, # 25 «registered supporters» and union affiliates - and they ALL picked Jeremy Corbyn

They have opened up a # 2 a month registered supporter scheme, which will allow people to join the «Unite Community», with members of the affiliated union able to vote in the Labour leadership.

Some 30,000 new members have joined in the few days since Miliband's resignation, and unions are expected to mount an intense drive to encourage thousands of their members to become affiliated Labour supporters in order to have a vote.

Changes introduced by Ed Miliband mean that those union members who want to be associated with the Labour Party - or, in the jargon, who wish to be «affiliated supporters» - must now consciously opt in.

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

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

If Mr Miliband gets his way, Labour will have three main categories of formal supporters: individual members, individual affiliated supporters (mainly union members) and registered supporters (effectively a cheaper system of individual membership).

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.