Sentences with phrase «as trade unionists»

Ironically, he won on pledging the same economic change - to rebuild a middle class that we as trade unionists have championed.

«We also will be calling on the Government to recognise the Bahrain Teachers» Association and to allow teachers and academics to organise freely as trade unionists in accordance with international conventions.

As a trade unionist I didn't join the movement in order to feather my own nest, or jump on a gravy train.

Not just on the issues, but training relevant to your own work as a trade unionist.

The party described him as a trade unionist employed as a researcher at the National Assembly who specialises in finance, transport and local government.

She is a dedicated campaigner for the Labour Party, as a trade unionist, and for local and community causes.

Not exact matches

The real world is more complicated than that, as any practical trade unionist will tell you.»

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

He would also unite Labour MPs, members, trade unionists and the wider movement who want to come together and campaign properly on this as it matters so much.

As a young trade - unionist, she helped organise the Suffrage Pilgrimage in 1913, where more than 50,000 women marched to a mass rally in Hyde Park.

Its adherents now — the John Reids and Jonathan Powells of the world — are as dated as they thought the trade unionists in the party were in their own day.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

In relation to External pressures, the link was threatened as early as 1909, by court action brought by a Liberal trade unionist — Walter Osborne.

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.

As an active trade unionist, he is co-ordinator of the UNITE Group of Labour Assembly Members.

As well as encouraging trade unionists to join the Party, we need to get Labour Party members to become trade union memberAs well as encouraging trade unionists to join the Party, we need to get Labour Party members to become trade union memberas encouraging trade unionists to join the Party, we need to get Labour Party members to become trade union members.

Ed Miliband was experiencing a strange twist of fate today, as he faced disputes with his brother and trade unionists only to be supported by Tory right - winger Nadine Dorries.

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.

This won't be because individual trade unionists who previously paid their political levy might not sign up to a pro-union Labour Party, it is just that the Labour Party Lord Adonis and his friends feel comfortable with is going to be about as friendly to the unions as, well, every other Westminster party.

«It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in Parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.»

«What we know about fascists is that they need to be defeated and it is why, as we have heard tonight, socialists and trade unionists were just one part of the international brigade in the 1930s to fight against Franco.

Not only did affiliated trade unionists, and people who paid three pounds to take part back Mr Corbyn by big majorities; he also enjoyed the backing of around 60 % of the near - 100,000 people who have joined Labour as full members since May.

The union yesterday revealed that around 40 trade unionists had been selected as Labour parliamentary candidates, saying its voice was being strongly heard on party policy making.

And it is why, as we have heard tonight, socialists and trade unionists and others joined the international brigade in the 1930s to fight against Franco; it's why this entire House stood up against Hitler and Mussolini; it is why our party has always stood up against the denial of human rights and for justice.

He said: «This Prime Minister seeks to paint the millions of trade unionists and their families as «the enemy within», with a Tory party drunk on class prejudice, intent on destroying this movement as a force in British life.»

His letter to members adds: «It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.

[9][10] In 1990, she won the South East TUC Mike Perkins Memorial Award for Young Trade Unionists before being elected as the Youth Representative on Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) the following year.

The pledge card also proposes offering free membership to trade unionists as well as a right for union members to choose to donate their political levy to the Conservatives as opposed to Labour.

That would maintain trade unionist involvement with an equal weighting (rather than half the weighting as in the recent electoral college) and avoid what Sunder Katwala calls a «legitimacy question» (the possibility that different candidates would win different sections of an electoral college) because Ed would simply have won by a much larger margin.

Amongst both Labour members and trade unionists David Miliband is still seen as the candidate who would be most likely to win the next election, and most likely to make a good Prime Minister.

As ballot papers for Labour's leadership land on doorsteps this week, those electing the next Leader of the Opposition, namely party members, MPs and affiliated trades unionists have a duty not only to consider their party's best interests, but the country's best interests too.

First, just as in the 1920s, the fees for those trade unionists who wished to join could be increased to mitigate the loss.

He said MPs, trade unionists and journalists had all fallen foul of blacklists over two decades, as well as thousands of construction workers.

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.»

Although Murphy subsequently said that he wished to remain as Scottish Labour leader, the poor result prompted senior party figures and trade unionists to question the viability of his future in the post.

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.»

It stars Sally Hawkins as Rita, confident and forthright as the ordinary working mum who finds herself elevated to the position of striker - spokeswoman, battling not merely against the bosses but the smug chaps» club in general: employers and trade unionists getting ready to stitch up a duplicitous compromise behind her back.

In the first major demonstration in this country of the growing Time's Up movement campaigning against sexism and inequality, Andrea Riseborough will walk into the annual awards ceremony with Phyll Opoku - Gyimah, the trade unionist and co-founder of UK Black Pride, also known as Lady Phyll.

He had grown dissatisfied with the innate limitations of the typical trade - unionists as well as with the impractical intellectual.

But no decision was taken as unionist expressed reservation against it,» said Mr. G Sanjeeva Reddy, President of Indian National Trade Union.