Sentences with phrase «affiliated unions putting»

She was the only candidate nominated for the post, with 32 of the 54 affiliated unions putting her name forward.

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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.

The largest share of money from this union came from its New Jersey affiliate, which put $ 550,000 into an independent expenditure committee that helped Democratic Senate candidates on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley.

The local tradition that gave us Attlee, Lansbury and the Poplar Rates Rebellion now puts two fingers up to Labour - affiliated trade unions and stands with the Tories to vote through job cuts.

Though they explicitly deny being any sort of competition to the local American Federation of Teachers affiliate, the new group is staking out positions that put them in diametric opposition to the union:

This was accomplished after an intensive three - year campaign by the Canadian Labour Congress and its affiliated unions to change bankruptcy laws that unfairly put workers last in line to get paid.