Sentences with phrase «agreement with labour»

[10] However following the election the Liberal Democrats refused to make any agreement with Labour, thus allowing the Conservatives to take control as the largest party from Labour who had run the council since 1996.

The Co-operative party has held an electoral agreement with Labour since 1927 that allows them to stand joint candidates in elections.

[101][102][103] Each would also make it a condition of any agreement with Labour that Trident nuclear weapons was not replaced; the Green Party of England and Wales stated that «austerity is a red line.»

However, since the 1927 Cheltenham Agreement, the party has had an electoral agreement with the Labour Party, which allows for a limited number of Labour Co-operative candidates.

As a result of an electoral agreement with the Labour Party, [2] «Labour and Co-operative Party» candidates receive financial help with election expenses from the Co-operative Party, including funding parliamentary candidates.

«I don't have a solution, but as Plaid Cymru found out in the One Wales Agreement with Labour, it's often difficult for junior partners in coalitions to retain ownership of policies.

The Co-operative Party later reached an electoral agreement with the Labour Party.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

Not exact matches

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

DC: There are a number of ingredients that go into it, whether it's the labour agreement, whether it's working with governments.

But, then again, Ottawa already spends more than $ 12 billion a year on post-secondary education, plus billions more on joint labour force training agreements with the provinces.

Programmed Maintenance Services has scrapped its maintenance labour agreements with Carlton & United Breweries in Victoria to avoid clashing with unions.

But stronger labour provisions and making NAFTA greener fit with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's push for «progressive» trade agreements.

A final agreement with P&G on Merck's French consumer health business has yet to be worked out with labour representatives but that will not change the overall price agreed with P&G.

When the main so - called Labour Market Agreements with the provinces come up for renegotiation in 2014, Flaherty said they will be changed so that much of the federal money goes directly to businesses.

$ 2.7 billion over six years for labour market transfer agreements with the provinces and territories to modernize training and job supports, to help those looking for work to upgrade skills, gain experience, start a business or get employment counselling.

The economics of large, labour - intensive plants no longer work in the United States or Canada in an era of robots and inexpensive shipping from Asian countries, most of which have no free trade agreement with either the U.S. or Canada.

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

The Labour Market Agreement has been a big hit with the provinces and territories, with provincial officials pointing to a recent joint evaluation with Ottawa that determined those participating in the plan doubled their chances of landing jobs and keeping them.

The Labour Relations Department said the current round of health - care collective bargaining has been unusually complex with the merging of 50 agreements into eight.

Some elements of human rights can also be dealt with through language on labour and gender in an agreement.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Then an expected agreement on the start of free trade talks with China did not materialize during Justin Trudeau's Beijing visit earlier this week, blocked by Chinese objections to including «progressive elements,» such as labour and gender rights, in the negotiations.

«The premier said this week that she has completed a project development agreement with Petronas, a proponent that had already told her government that it intends to use up to 70 per cent foreign labour on construction,» Ralston said.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

Labour would need an agreement with the SNP in addition to a coalition with the Lib Dems, while the Tories would need to group together several smaller parties, probably including the DUP.

The coalition agreement contained plans for fixed parliamentary terms - a Labour and Lib Dem manifesto commitment but not a Tory one - along with details of the emergency procedure for getting a government out if it had lost support.

«Our analysis — modelled on the default scenario that the UK withdraws completely from the EU and fails to reach trade and customs agreements with remaining EU member states — opens the door to the possibility that Scottish businesses and taxpayers will face a range of additional financial burdens in the form of increased trading and labour costs.

Today seemed to entail another moment of clarity, with Corbyn confirming that Labour wanted a «comprehensive» customs union agreement with the EU.

In her speech, she singled out Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as well as the House of Lords: «In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the EU.

«In recent weeks Labour has threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the European Union.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have ruled out a coalition with the SNP, but as Nicola Sturgeon notes, this does not rule out a confidence - and - supply or some other kind of still loser agreement.

The issue of anti-austerity economics will be perhaps the most tricky for the Liberal Democrats in reaching agreement with both Labour and the SNP.

LONDON — Hillary Clinton has warned that «the hand of history will be heavy and unforgiving» if Theresa May's government allows Brexit to «undermine» the Good Friday Agreement as both Labour and the Conservatives were accused of souring tensions with the Irish government.

I can not get out of my head a 1984 - style image of Labour MPs, after an agreement with the LibDems, saying «We've always supported international law and habeas corpus and have always opposed ID cards».

It seems unlikely that Labour would enter into any kind of formal agreement that allowed SNP MPs to become ministers or play a direct role in the management of government departments — indeed, Miliband has ruled out a coalition with the Scottish nationalists.

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions.

Thus, Labour's only chance of avoiding a period of Conservative hegemony is to seek an agreement with the Liberal Democrats before the election.

Ed Miliband has said Labour would not form a coalition with the SNP, although he has left open the prospect of a confidence - and - supply agreement, or a minority coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

If party X break this agreement, Labour would lose their votes - but party X would lose all their influence, along with any chance of their policies being turned into law.

[267] This led to Labour leader Ed Miliband calling the PCC a «toothless poodle,» and in agreement with Prime Minister David Cameron proposed the creation of a new press watchdog.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

Adelugba held that all pensioners have been paid their pension up to May, 2017 in line with the approved schedules, citing a reflection of the Memorandum of Understanding / Agreement signed by both government and Labour of which NUP was not left out.

Labour have always been clear that parliament, not ministers, must have the final say on the UK's withdrawal agreement with the European Union.

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.

The organized labour on Wednesday threatened to resume their suspended strike over failure of government to honour the agreement reached with them.

The benefits of the agreement are twofold, Labour gaining candidates with lower election costs and the party gaining influence within a Labour movement.

Labour will maintain the cross-border security co-operation agreements with our intelligence partners in Europe and beyond.

So henceforth, the Labour Party will establish standard constituency agreements with each trade union so that nobody can allege that individuals are being put under pressure at local level.