Sentences with phrase «by foreign labour»

He also warned that concerns of workers that their pay was being driven down by foreign labour were real.

Not exact matches

«Foreign work experience is largely discounted by Canadian employers when the immigrant first enters the Canadian labour market, and it is a weak predictor of economic success,» the analysis said.

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

In some ways, that was just a matter of domestic Canadian cheap labour being edged out of jobs by foreign cheaper labour.

In the 80s, these countries, and also China, were able to take advantage of the world crisis by playing a part in globalisation of exchange of goods (through their relative advantage of cheap labour), and calling for foreign investment and by signing up their development projects within a nationally governed strategy (in the case of Korea and Korea, but not the South - east Asian countries).

Here's the line put out by Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander on the referendum debate.

[1] The twelve - page document was approved unanimously by the Labour NEC, with the Prime Minister Clement Attlee and the Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin present.

Voters were courted by political institutions from all sides — the government, all the political parties apart from UKIP, the Bank of England, international organizations, foreign governments, the US President himself and the «Remain» or StrongerIn campaign convened by Conservative, Labour and the smaller parties.

He attempts to get a US congressman to table a «favourable» motion (about independence) to «snooker» the Foreign Office, tries but fails to persuade the former (Labour) first minister Henry McLeish to back independence (he «is clearly torn between loyalty to party and country»), and tries but fails to win the Scottish Sun's backing (on September 7th Murdoch is still prevaricating; by September 16th he has opted for «benign neutrality»).

Keeley is a member of the Labour Friends of Israel, [3] she visited Israel in September 2007 on a trip funded by the Labour Friends of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

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.

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.

It was interesting to see Jack Straw, former Labour foreign secretary come out in support of the UN move by the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

The documents apparently show that labour foreign secretary David Owen signed off on the loans despite being aware of the Falklands issue and potential misuse by the right - wing military junta running the country at the time.

Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander today accused the Prime Minister of a «fairly knee - jerk reaction which... may well have been driven more by politics than by a considered judgment of the needs of the constitution».

Former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has spoken to ITV News after his sacking by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander's attack on the «ill - judged and unwise» proposal from the European Commission's proposal to increase its annual budget by 4.9 %, which Oborne points out was exactly the «kind of profligacy» cheerfully sanctioned by Labour during its 13 years in power.

Six and a half hours after Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt emailed MPs to say a secret ballot of the entire Labour parliamentary party would clear the air of doubts about Gordon Brown's leadership, Miliband — the foreign secretary and likely next Labour leader - made a statement which fell short of the full - throated backing offered by other members of the cabinet.

He was appointed foreign secretary in the new Labour government although he lost his seat at Smethwick in a bitter contest tainted by racial slurs.

The Labour leader was flanked by deputy leader Tom Watson and newly - appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry as he responded to David Cameron's statement on the outcome of the EU referendum.

Many opposition MPs, such as Labour's Mike Gapes, a former chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, tried to «talk it out» by giving long and irrelevant speeches in a bid to make it run out of parliamentary time, but it eventually passed without a vote.

But Labour's call is being resisted by the Foreign Office, which is refusing to commit to a specific deadline for Russian cooperation.

Former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband has made one of the most thunderous attacks on Brexit yet by a senior political figure.

The Committee, which is chaired by the Minister for Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffuor, has the Ministers for Trade and Industry; Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Finance; Food and Agriculture; Attorney General; Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Monitoring and Evaluation; Education; Health; Sanitation and Water Resources; Local Government and Rural Development; Gender, Children and Social Protection; Employment and Labour Relations; and Fisheries and Aquaculture as members.

As the foreign secretary sat down, he was applauded in the Chamber and on social media by both Labour and Tory MPs.

Labour MPs have lapped up a blundering interview by Boris Johnson, in which the foreign secretary...

The shadow foreign secretary, tipped for many years to be Labour's next leader but beaten by his younger brother by a margin of just 1.3 % on Saturday, sought to demonstrate his mood with two jokes.

For every anecdote about lifelong trade unionist abandoning Labour because of Corbyn's stance on foreign policy issues, there's someone like my own aunt, who is affected by the Bedroom Tax and thinks he's God's gift to politics.

It was late one night during the Labour conference, that the he suggested this government might try to make savings in the Foreign Office budget by transfering the # 272m annual budget of the BBC World Service directly to the BBC, to paid out of income from the licence fee.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

Emily Thornberry, who was sacked as shadow attorney general by former Labour leader Ed Milband, could replace Mr Benn as shadow foreign secretary.

18.00 Conservative MEP Kay Swinburne and Labour MEP Derek Vaughan are among speakers at an event hosted by the TUC, Foreign Policy Centre and the European Commission Representation in the UK to discuss UK perspectives on EU employment and social law

They also won the seat of former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, overturning a majority of 23,009 to win by a majority of 9,974 votes and saw Mhairi Black, then a 20 - year - old student, defeat Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander with a swing of 26.9 %.

Scottish Labour has finally woken up, roused by a speech from the Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Labour MPs have lapped up a blundering interview by Boris Johnson, in which the foreign secretary struggled to answer questions about the Queen's Speech.

Making her keynote platform speech, the shadow foreign secretary set the foundations for her gag by talking about how she would like to see Labour claiming a few big Tory scalps in the next general election.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

The group of Labour abstainers was spearheaded by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who is in charge of the party's ongoing nuclear weapons review.

The most fervent Brexiter in the cabinet has said he is encouraged by the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry's suggestion that Labour would vote for an anodyne deal on leaving the European Union.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Ms Harman said Labour shared people's concerns over wages being suppressed by cheaper, foreign workers.

In often heated exchanges and interruptions by two DUP MPs — Ian Paisley Jnr and Sammy Wilson — who were attending the committee debate but were not eligible to vote, both accused Labour of remaining fixated on the result of the referendum and on failures to address the «millions» Sinn Fein received in foreign donations.

William Hague responded by saying Labour must be in a «deserate panic» and attacked Labour's own record on funding: «People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones» the shadow foreign secretary said.

All future positions on foreign policy will be directed by Corbyn, a Labour source said.

The CWU - previously led by Alan Johnson, so hardly a hotbed of Hard Leftism - should stop wasting its money on New Labour and start funding individual candidates, regardless of party (if any), who do in fact support public services, strong unions, rural communities, national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), and the monarchy's direct link to every address in the count.

Ms Lipman's attack came after shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry admitted she had been approached in the street by anti-Semites claiming to be Labour supporters.

It also has striking similarities to the case advanced by foreign secretary David Miliband - that Labour needs to win the argument over its record and its vision for the future - which was widely seen as his manifesto for the party leadership.

The Labour leader, who was left reeling after his decision to sack the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, was followed by the resignations of 11 senior shadow cabinet members, said he would not «betray the trust» of the people who voted for him by stepping down.

The attack came after shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry (pictured on Marr today) admitted she had been approached in the street by anti-Semites claiming to be Labour supporters.