Sentences with phrase «as members of the trade union»

Conservative MP Fiona Bruce spoke out as members of the trade union prepare to vote on the proposal during the BMA's annual conference in Bournemouth.

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As part of our new free - trade deal with the European Union, Ottawa could negotiate to become a member of the Unified Patent Court.

As a trade union, our goal is to ensure our members are properly supported and aligned to meet the ever - evolving needs of the province we serve.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

As well as MPs and members, he had over 50 % of trade union vote in a 3 - way contesAs well as MPs and members, he had over 50 % of trade union vote in a 3 - way contesas MPs and members, he had over 50 % of trade union vote in a 3 - way contest.

One of many tipped as a Corbyn successor, he perhaps lacks the warmth to charm the party members and trade union leaders.

Labelled as the continuity Blair candidate, David's victory speech — secured across all three sections of the electoral college, albeit very narrowly with a higher - than - expected turnout from USDAW members in the trade union component, emphasised the need to capture economic credibility.

The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the defeats suffered by the trade union movement, as well as the decline in influence of the British Communist Party, led to a strengthening of the position of Labour party members who were opposed to Marxism.

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.

But this is what could be happening to millions of trade union members each year as trade union membership forms fail to notify members of the political levy added to their membership fees.

But, as you know better than I, just 15 per cent of the private sector workforce are members of trade unions.

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.

However, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke said: «I actually think the vast majority of members of the Labour party would quite like to see the party to stop being dependent on these millions from the trade unions, what is left of the trade union movement, that keeps trying to use that as political leverage which they do not want.»

And Conference, as a proud member of the Unite and Unison trade unions, I know this whole movement is up for the battle to come.

As union leaders were quick to point out, it would mean probably as few as ten per cent of trade unionists would remain memberAs union leaders were quick to point out, it would mean probably as few as ten per cent of trade unionists would remain memberas few as ten per cent of trade unionists would remain memberas ten per cent of trade unionists would remain members.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has produced a draft motion which you may wish to use as a basis for a response by your constituency party, members branch or trade union branch on the introduction of primaries:

When trade unions sign up their levy - payers as individual members, all they're actually doing is shifting them from one category of membership to another... to a category that still has the right to select candidates that affiliated members used to have.

EHRC member Lorna McGregor said: «As it stands, the Trade Union Bill is in danger of imposing potentially unlawful restrictions on everyone's basic human right to strike.

Affiliated supporters (AS): these are members of a socialist society or members of an affiliated trade union who pay the political levy, who are on the electoral register, and who have signed up as an AS online or through their organisatioAS): these are members of a socialist society or members of an affiliated trade union who pay the political levy, who are on the electoral register, and who have signed up as an AS online or through their organisatioas an AS online or through their organisatioAS online or through their organisation.

Where not otherwise prevented they shall also be a member of a trade union affiliated to the TUC or considered by the NEC as a bona fide trade union and contribute to the political fund of that union.

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.

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

The membership of each of Labour's policy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politicians.

Since some leading trade union members of the NEC are known to favour circulating ballot papers to all levy papers — as was the previous practice — with votes being counted provided that levy - payers tick the box to opt into affiliated supporter status, the union influence may in fact not change so much from the process that selected Ken Livingstone.

«We as a trade union movement have got to be prepared to reflect the anger of our members and our members are deeply, deeply angry,» he said.

On Thursday, Richard Angell, the director of Labour's centrist pressure group Progress, wrote an editorial arguing that policy of remaining in the single market would be the best move by Corbyn to unite all Labour members across the political spectrum as well as in leading trade unions.

Whether in Scotland or in the rest of the UK, Labour will never flourish if it treats it's members and affiliated trade unions as a revenue source.

That's what will happen if we all keep behaving as we have been for too long — Labour ministers and MPs not fighting back; some senior Labour and trade union colleagues predicting a Tory government; party members sullen and inactive; all of us continuing to behave as if a Tory win is inevitable.

Labour MPs and MEPs including Clive Lewis and David Lammy are backing the new group, as well as left - wing trade union chiefs and members of the party's ruling National Executive Committee.

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.

Likewise, in the Trade Union ballots, I use the Labour List poll as a starting point but adjust them to reflect the likely effect of Union executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union memUnion ballots, I use the Labour List poll as a starting point but adjust them to reflect the likely effect of Union executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union memUnion executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union memunion members.

The headline findings are that David Miliband leads on first preferences amongst party and trade union members as well as MPs, with his brother Ed well ahead of the field in second place in all sections and, in the final stage, the poll predicts a 54/46 victory for the elder brother.

«Our call today is to Labour MPs, councillors, members, trade union members to do your bit, to persuade your friends and family that we're better of as members of the EU.

Also present, however, were some members from the city's construction trades unions, as well as members of Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents about 120,000 members in city locals.

The Labour leader's comments came as he hosted a special conference in London where delegates will vote on ending the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introducing «one member, one vote» in leadership elections.

As one party figure put it: «If just one in 10 trade unionists becomes an associate member, the unions will effectively control a majority of votes in a Labour leadership election.»

At the moment, some Labour members can have more than one vote - if they are an MP, for example, they might also have a vote as a trade union member, party member and member of an «affiliated society» such as the Fabian Society.

With his Glaswegian brogue and background as a sheet metal worker and trade union official, he was quickly dubbed «Gorbals Mick» by some Tories and members of the press.

Gray, 69, the final new member, has worked just two blocks from the World Trade Center site for the past nine years as associate director of DC 37, a public employees union with 125,000 members.

In a unanimous decision, it welcomed «any measures which increase the involvement of individual trade unionists in the Labour Party» and, as had been advocated by Len McCluskey from the start, specifically agreed Miliband's proposal that «individual political levy paying members of trade unions be encouraged to «opt in'to associate membership of the Labour Party as part of the drive to build a Party of mass membership.»

But the three non-E.U. members of the ETS abide by trade policy set by the European Union and even contribute to its budget as a condition of accessing the union's single market — strictures a post-Brexit Britain is unlikely to embUnion and even contribute to its budget as a condition of accessing the union's single market — strictures a post-Brexit Britain is unlikely to embunion's single market — strictures a post-Brexit Britain is unlikely to embrace.

Events are being hosted nationally by these Trade Unions, along with publications such as the Hazards Magazine regularly presenting editorial on asbestos as well as hosting events to advise their readers and members of the requirements and of the risk from asbestos.

The new National Education Union will become the biggest union of teachers and education professionals in the whole of Europe, as well as the fourth largest trade union in the UK, with almost half a million memUnion will become the biggest union of teachers and education professionals in the whole of Europe, as well as the fourth largest trade union in the UK, with almost half a million memunion of teachers and education professionals in the whole of Europe, as well as the fourth largest trade union in the UK, with almost half a million memunion in the UK, with almost half a million members.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

Legal expert and UK200Group Executive Board Member Peter Duff has forecast that, in the case of Britain leaving the European Union, lawyers will be busy as our government and businesses adapt to being outside of the trade bloc.

60 Consequently, as the Commission observes, to regard the rules on patentable subject - matter in Article 27 of the TRIPs Agreement as falling within the field of the common commercial policy rather than the field of the internal market correctly reflects the fact that the context of those rules is the liberalisation of international trade, not the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States of the European Union.

(13) The application for certification shall be accompanied by a list of the names of the union members in the proposed bargaining unit and evidence of their status as union members, but the trade union shall not give this information to the employer.

(4) A trade union and the employer of the employees concerned shall not enter into a collective agreement that includes provisions requiring, as a condition of employment, membership in the trade union that is a party to or is bound by the agreement unless the trade union has established at the time it entered into the agreement that not less than 55 per cent of the employees in the bargaining unit were members of the trade union, but this subsection does not apply,

(10) The Board shall not certify the trade union as bargaining agent of the employees in the bargaining unit and shall dismiss the application if it is satisfied that fewer than 40 per cent of the employees in the bargaining unit are members of the trade union on the date the application is filed.

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