Sentences with phrase «affiliated with labour»

The Co-operative party is affiliated with the Labour Party in Northern Ireland.

The Left has long regarded co-ops, mutuals and employee - owned businesses as its exclusive domain, so much so that the Co-operative Party is formally affiliated with Labour.

There are plenty of progressives who are not affiliated with Labour and I completely agree with Jennie's frustration when an initiative such as this seems to specifically exclude us.

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.

Not exact matches

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

Even USDAW and Community chimed in with a joint statement by Labour affiliates.

We therefore oppose the introduction of a primary for the selection of Labour's candidate for London Mayor or for any other election and call on Ray Collins to recommend that Labour's selections processes continue to involve Labour's membership (both affiliates and individuals) and to recommend they are not replaced with primaries.

It strengthens the NPL now view, but does not clinch it, as the major affiliated unions and other bodies are likely to stick with Labour, at least until the election, unless constitutional changes which effectively end union affiliation come into force before then.

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

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.

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.

Labour has long been identified with red, a political colour traditionally affiliated with socialism and the labour movLabour has long been identified with red, a political colour traditionally affiliated with socialism and the labour movlabour movement.

If these collective levy - payers wanted an individual relationship with the party, they could register as affiliated supporters (AS) by signing a statement of support for Labour values, giving the party contact details including a postal address, and confirming that they were on the electoral roll.

Labour movements often deal with issues like this, for example, an industrial dispute that covers a workplace chapel, of a trade section, of a trade union, which is affiliated to at least one Trades Hall Council, both the union and TUC being (factionalised) affiliates to a political party, which holds government, which runs the chapel section of the workplace in the first place.

Notes to Editors * The coalition of MPs and unions is being brought together by the Trade Union and Labour Liaison Organisation (TULO), the body which brings together Labour Party affiliated unions with Labour MPs.

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

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.

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.

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.

Rather than collectively discussing ways of reforming the union - Labour link with the 15 affiliated unions, Miliband engaged in «dog - whistle» politics by quickly responding to the taunts of the Tories and the mischief making of the Blairites.

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 unions contributed # 50 million to Labour in the past five years, what the Tories have warned is the «elephant in the room», but Sir Jeremy noted that with 2.5 million affiliate members, this was just eight pence per union member per week.

The Trade Union Liaision Organisation, the group of unions affiliated to the Labour Party, has sought confirmation from all leadership candidates that they will robustly defend the party's links with the unions.

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.

Labour say this will make their party a mass - membership institution with individual union members choosing to affiliate to the party and having a say in leadership elections - one member one vote - instead of unions acting on their behalf.

The study — titled Stuck: how Labour is too weak to win and too strong to die — is particularly pertinent for the party as it comes from an officially affiliated organisation, which was one of Labour's co-founders in 1900 but is now associated with the centre - right of Labour.

By rejecting both fees and a graduate tax, NUS moved into line with Labour - affiliated unions such as the GMB, Unite, UNISON and the TUC in demanding free education.

To open dialogue with affiliated trade unions to win support at Labour Party conferences for democratic rule changes and for pro-working-class policies on issues such as cuts, the living wage, jobs, and trade union rights.

And while not being party political but we work with affiliated groups in a number of parties — the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.

Selections are a matter for local party members and affiliates in accordance with Labour party rules.»

Humanists UK itself is not party political but we work with affiliated groups in a number of parties — the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.

None of the four striking unions, with members in schools, colleges, universities and the civil service, is affiliated to the Labour party.

Today, Ed Miliband will set out a series of bold reforms to Labour's relationship with its affiliated trade unions, in a bid to draw a line under the disastrous fallout from the botched Falkirk selection process.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

With such a system the election of Labour's candidate for London Mayor is likely to be more influenced by the owner of the Evening Standard than union affiliates and individual party members.

The disdain with which rebels in the Parliamentary Labour Party disregarded the statement from General Secretaries of 12 of the 14 affiliated trade unions, indicates turning their backs on the ethos and traditions of the 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.

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.

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.

The evidence from a YouGov poll is that he can win this argument with affiliated trade unionists because most of them don't support Labour.

It is also affiliated with The International Labour Organization.