Sentences with phrase «affiliation fees»

A requirement to opt into paying affiliation fees would greatly reduce the amount of union cash given to the party on an annual basis, rather than in one - off donations.

The likelihood is that no matter how successful Labour is at encouraging union members to contribute to the party, there will be a major shortfall in affiliation fees.

We also have concerns about the proposed treatment of affiliation fees from trade union members.

There would be no extra payment beyond the annual affiliation fee, currently # 3, from their union.

The overall total in the political fund remains the same; it's the split between affiliation fees and donations that will change.

There is «some moral justification» to Labour's plan to end the automatic affiliation fee for some trade union members, Unite leader Len McCluskey has said.

As the esteemed Peter Watt set out in a prescient post on party funding last year, in a typical non-general election year, trade union affiliation fees will total roughly # 8m.

The one common requirement is they must provide all their levy paying members with an active choice about the payment of affiliation fees».

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has set out plans to end automatic affiliation fees paid to the party by millions of union members.

However, trade unions do not just contribute to Labour through affiliation fees — they also make donations — and cash donations from trade unions declared to the Electoral Commission (which include affiliation payments) constituted over 80 % of Labour's private donations in 2012.

These include individual and corporate donations, affiliation fees such as the Labour Party receives from the trades unions, and commercial investments.

I do not want any individual to be paying money to the Labour Party in affiliation fees unless they have deliberately chosen to do so.

In a scenario, where affiliation fees drop significantly, union leaders could end up with greater powers of patronage from the increased sums available for donation.

That doesn't begin to even cover their franchise and branch affiliation fees, licensing, renewals, and insurance.

But Mr Miliband said «6p a week in affiliation fees from ordinary people» could not be compared to a party funded by «a few millionaires at the top».

There is «some moral justification» to Labour's plan to end the automatic affiliation fee for some trade union members, the leader of Unite has said.

Based on the numbers who voted in the last leadership election a 10 % opt - in rate would have been optimistic, and an immediate 90 % cut in affiliation fees would have left the party unable to function, with no corresponding reduction in Tory funding.

Union affiliation fees to Labour are almost certain to fall precipitously.

All provisional HFA sites are required to pay annual affiliation fees to the HFA National Office.

He writes: «What is proposed here is to ask all levy payers, current and future, to make a positive individual choice over the payment of affiliation fees to the Labour party.

League — Mens JCR 1st teams - # 32, Mens JCR Reserve teams - # 32, Mens MCR Teams - # 32; Women's teams # 32 Cuppers — Mens JCR 1st and Reserve teams # 20, Mens MCR teams # 20, Women's teams # 20 Affiliation to the Oxford University FA to cover all College Football participation is also now required at # 20 per team: The affiliation fee is not a fee that should be reclaimed from College authorities, but should be levied on playing members of the College Football teams.

I get about twenty to thirty emails a day asking various questions about college leagues and I have spent three weeks chasing up captains getting them to pay their affiliation fees, as well as various other tasks such as the weekly assigning of referees for matches.

The GMB Union's unexpected decision today to lower their affiliation fees from # 1.2 m a year to # 150,000 is a warning shot that doesn't bode well for the Labour party.

The result was quite predictable — around a quarter fewer trade unionists opted in to the political levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was mitigated in part by unions raising the affiliation fee for those who continued to pay into the political fund.

I pointed this out in the recent report I produced on trade unions and the Kelly report into Party funding was also critical of the fact that members do not make a positive decision to opt - in to paying the affiliation fees to Labour and the political levy.

We have the The Kelly Report: recommendations include a limit of # 10,000 on donations from individuals, organizations and trade unions — unless individuals make a positive decision to «opt - in'to the affiliation fee.

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.

Political parties in the UK are funded from a variety of sources including membership and affiliation fees, fund - raising and commercial activities, government grants and voluntary donations.

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.

To have a vote you have to consent to the affiliation fee and you have to send the party your details.

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.

Unions currently provide Labour with # 8.5 m annually in affiliation fees.

But the strength of individual union votes will be determined by the number of people who pay an affiliation fee.

For the first time, union levypayers, starting immediately with new members, will be asked positively to consent for # 3 of their political levy to be paid to the Labour party in an affiliation fee.

AS are separate from trade unions» collective affiliation, whereby individual members must agree to part of their subscription going to the party as an affiliation fee.

Individual Trade Union members should choose to join Labour through the affiliation fee, not be automatically affiliated.

Ed Miliband has been bounced into one misjudgment after another, with the latest consequence the announcement by the GMB union that it is cutting its affiliation fees to Labour from # 1.2 m a year to # 150,000.

In high dudgeon, the GMB have cut the affiliation fee paid to Labour from # 1.2 m to # 150,000.

Under Ed Miliband's plan, trade unionists will now have to «opt - in» to pay a portion of their political levy to the Labour party as an affiliation fee.

He will propose an end to affiliation fees from the unions, switching to a system where individual trade unionists «opt in» to pay towards the party.

Out of an annual income in the range # 27m - # 30m, the affiliation fees constitute about 27 % of income — a very significant proportion, but even if they fell sharply in a year, the party could still meet its minimum annual debt repayment and servicing costs.

Unless Ed Miliband can secure a parallel deal on party funding, that includes an individual donation cap of # 5,000, at the same time that changes to union affiliation fees are made, political disaster will loom.

The union member will have to consent to part of their political levy going to the Labour party in the form of an affiliation fee.

Labour officials said there was no ambiguity in the wording, arguing that the reference to a positive choice meant union members would have to say yes on a form when asked if they want some of their political levy to go to Labour in the form of an affiliation fee.

Some unions wanted to argue instead that an annual affiliation fee could be paid if someone had been given a choice, but did not actively reject making the payment and instead left the form blank.

Although that figure includes members of unions who are not affiliated to Labour, the indicative message is clear: a change from a payment to Labour «by default» using «contracting out» to a positive decision to support Labour is likely to lead to a decline in income to the Labour Party from affiliation fees.

In 2012, Labour received just under # 8 million in affiliation fees — around 24 % of its total central income.

When «contracting in'to the political levy was introduced in the 1920s, around a quarter of trade unionists stopped paying the levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was lessened by the raising of the affiliation fee.

It's estimated that affiliation fees from big unions such as UNITE and the GMB will fall substantially as a result.

He wants an end to affiliation fees - where members of supportive unions pay an automatic levy to Labour unless they opt out.