Sentences with phrase «agreed by labour»

Public sector workers have their pensions protected, even if another provider takes over the service, under «fair deal» rules agreed by Labour in the late 1990s.

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SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labour costs by April 20, the union said on Tuesday.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

David Cameron hammered the «final nail in the coffin» of the Tory modernisation project by agreeing to work with far - right parties in Europe, Labour says

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

Labour's shadow cabinet agreed on Monday that MPs would be given a free vote, despite Corbyn's public opposition to strikes, to avert a threatened rebellion by pro-bombing members such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.

Labour's Scottish executive committee (SEC) agreed that these issues would be taken forward by the Campaigns Committee.

[56] Inside the Labour Party, Harman has said she does «not agree with all - male leaderships» because men «can not be left to run things on their own»; and that, consequently, one of Labour's top two posts should always be held by a woman.

In Monday's shadow cabinet meeting, MPs agreed that Corbyn would open Labour's argument in Wednesday's Commons debate by opposing airstrikes while shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn will close the debate with an argument in favour of the government's motion.

How will you assure members and the public that Labour MPs will never again become so dissociated from reality and so institutionalised by Westminster that they do anything on a par with home flipping, expenses rigging, agree to lobby for money or do anything at all that brings the party into disrepute?

«As you know Labour are now in formal talks with the Liberal Democrats to see if we can agree a stable government to secure the economic recovery and change our politics,» the letter, signed by the joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson, said.

Clause five of Labour's constitution requires the manifesto to be formally agreed by the party's stakeholders at a special meeting of the NEC.

Labour MPs have now agreed a motion; «That this PLP has no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party», by 172 votes to 40.

[63] and responded to concerns about the timing by saying that a secret deal between the previous Labour government and the European Commission in Brussels obliged them to sell the bank in or before 2013, and» [g] iven we were advised that Northern Rock plc would have been likely to remain loss - making [until] at least well into 2012, which would have depleted taxpayer resources still further, agreeing a sale now was even more imperative.»

He says that five years ago cross-party talks got «so close» to agreeing on an individual donation cap but were «frustrated at the very last minute» by Labour.

The final package of Refounding Labour measures they have agreed is shrouded in the language of empowering members, as were those introduced by Tony Blair in 1997 and Gordon Brown in 2007.

By all means support Labour if you can tell what they stand for and agree with it, but you should admit that all this deficit denial, and denial that Labour would have needed to implement massive cuts too (but maybe slower and therefore deeper), is just naked political opportunism.

While I completely agree with the aim of this amendment it ignores the spirit of the document, reinforced by the Blunkett review which is also among the papers for consideration, according to which Labour will focus on teacher quality rather than the structure of provision.

Labour has set up a living standards and sustainability policy commission whose findings will be debated and agreed by the party's national policy forum in July.

The speech was met with anger by Labour sources, who still feel Mr Clegg sold out his principles when he agreed to the Tories» deficit reduction plan.

Labour MP Katy Clark agreed there was a «huge amount of hope» placed on Mr Obama's shoulders by the «wildly enthusiastic» American people.

The government agreed during the day to a Labour request to amend its own plans by launching an immediate review into extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.

«It also agreed the office of the Accountant General of the Federation should also provide the list of the 30 MDAs in reference to the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment by September 13, 2017.»

We were told that Labour couldn't possibly agree to us continuing to participate in a customs union by Labour spokespeople in the past and it is now party policy.

I also await answers to my other questions: when did Labour agree to oppose any review of mandatory life sentences for murder, and when did we decide that children should have lessons on «responsible gambling», part - funded by GamCare, which in turn gets its money from the gambling industry?

Whilst we do need to win over BME voters — particularly younger voters — we mustn't try to do so by pretending that we agree with the «leaders» of particular communities and imitating Labour's approach.

The timetable for the contest for the Leader of the Labour Party has been agreed by the NEC and will commence on Thursday.

But appearing in Parliament today, Mr Yakovenko appeared to go further, agreeing with Labour MP Chris Bryant that Russia believed the attack was carried out by UK «security services».

The shift, agreed by the shadow cabinet, is designed to prevent Labour being portrayed as the anti-referendum party in the European elections in May at a time when hostility to Brussels is gaining public traction.

While much blame can be placed on Labour's regulatory system for both the banking crisis and abuses that are regularly unfolding before the eyes of an incredulous public, the chancellor's focus today should have remained on the reputation of the City being «at stake» - as put to him by shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves - and a culture change, something that all parties agree to be critical.

The Public and Commercial Services Union, led by their Trotskyist General Secretary Mark Serwotka, challenged the plan and won on a technicality involving the staff handbook terms agreed by the last Labour Government which will now be changed.

Prior to September last year, workers were always paid, based on agreed rates put in place by the Hassan Sunmonu - led Osun State Revenue Apportionment Committee, comprising representatives of labour and other stakeholders.

Some hope that by then Labour's moderates will have agreed on single candidate to topple the leader.

Corbyn also sought to downplay the claim that he is not capable of winning over voters who do not already agree with him — by pointing to his successive victories and growing support base in Islington North and the Labour leadership election result.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

The motion set four conditions for the Labour party agreeing to air strikes against Isis and is now being cited by both supporters and opponents of air strikes as justifying their stance.

As above but Brown does agree to resign, being replaced under a little - known Labour party rule by either a caretaker, such as Alan Johnson, or a new leader such as David Miliband.

It was not, it's fair to say, universally welcomed by Labour supporters and there was particular criticism of it being backed up with a couple of poll questions showing people agreed with a statement «We must live within our means so cutting the deficit is the top priority».

I agree that experiences such as the London mayoral vote, encouraged in part by an AV system, was good for pluralism but let's not forget that this new culture was really underpinned by Labour and Green co-operation in the Greater London Authority, forced on them by PR.

I don't agree with his views on academies or free schools but the issue of apprenticeships and the lack of leadership shown by government departments on this is the type of issue that Labour shadow ministers should be shouting about wherever they can.

Time said of the events following the meeting, «Minister Pomaret clamped down on French labour with a set of drastic wage - & - hour decrees and Sir Walter Citrine agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped».

A timetable for selecting a Labour candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets in May 2014 was agreed by the organisation committee, where discussion centred on the last - minute exclusion of Lutfur Rahman in September 2010 and his subsequent victory as an independent.

«Michael Gove's department is breaking its own agreed spending deals with the Treasury by going # 114m over budget through its use of private - sector consultants and contractors, Labour claims.

I don't agree with anyone standing against the Labour Party, but in exceptional circumstances like this, when they are treated so abominably by the Party, I appreciate they have no other option.

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At the same event, hosted by Respublica, fellow Labour MP Simon Danczuk agreed that Corbyn needed to shift his focus and made it clear that he hadn't been impressed with the leader's keynote speech.

NMA, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Dr Godwin Tijani and made available to DAILY POST on Thursday hinted that the association was not invited to the meeting held between the State government and labour leaders where it was agreed that 50 % will be paid to workers.

Labour entered government by forming a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up - front tuition fees for university students as the price for a coalition deal.

But she added that Labour would not «force it» by making promises to collaborate on areas where it did not agree with the Lib Dems.

But Mr Watson also dismissed the idea put forward by some Labour figures, most notably former Shadow Cabinet member Clive Lewis, that the party should agree a «progressive alliance» with some of its rivals to take on the Tories at the next election.