Sentences with phrase «driven by labour»

A video posted by the party suggested a slightly different story: one car, apparently driven by a Labour supporter, reversed into a vehicle driven by one of the Respect faithful.

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Some other labour organizations have followed suit, including Toronto CUPE locals which, in the wake of a privatization drive by Mayor Rob Ford, have run several hearts - and - minds campaigns depicting individual city employees talking about the public services they deliver.

This has been driven by local labour shortages and provincial leadership on the issue.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

The Labour Watch site provides detailed information and advice to individual workers and employers on how to fight unionization drives and how to decertify existing unions, including by -LSB-...]

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

These expectations have been driven largely by fluctuations in US labour market data.

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

Economies grow, driven by capital and labour.

Currently, the cost of this is as high as 5 % of a manufacturer's turnover driven by factors such as increasing labour costs.

The reduced profitability of the seafood processing industry in 2014 appears to have been driven by higher labour, energy and other operating costs.

Privately, Scottish Tory strategists are absolutely delighted by this, for that dynamic suits both parties, driving generally «Unionist» voters (be they Tory, Labour or Lib Dem) towards Ruth Davidson and generally «Nationalist» voters (be they SNP, Labour or Lib Dem) towards Ms Sturgeon's party.

«However, we believe that the prime minister's decision to call this election is a cynical decision driven more by the weakness of Corbyn's Labour Party rather than the good of the country.

They want to be able to choose people — perhaps on a «points - based system» — who will most benefit the economy: superstars of the future — unhindered by «backwards» cultural tradition and able to innovate and drive forward a new economy; cheap labour which — free from EU regulations — can be brought into work hard on construction projects and then sent packing afterwards.

Because as well as the official Labour conference, Momentum - the driving force behind Jeremy Corbyn — are staging their own «happening» (I've been instructed by James Schneider, a Momentum big wig, that it is NOT a conference... erm... okay) up the road in Liverpool at the same time.

The row over Corbyn's non-call to drive Labour back to the Austin Allegro and British Leyland by restoring Clause IV and slick campaign videos - Burnham playing Cameron happy families, Kendall offering a Blairite message in a John Lewis advert - blend traditional dirty politics with a modern setting.

From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge on the single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven largely by British politics.

The near certainty of a predicted Labour victory above a certain threshold is largely driven by five Labour candidates who spent over # 28,000, all of whom were victorious (by contrast 11 Conservative candidates spent more than # 28,000 but only 5 of those won).

One school in Gloucestershire cited by Labour as an example introduced «a drive on outdoor education» and an increased use of technology.

Blue Labour supports an environmentalism driven by our desire to protect the places we love.

Conspiracy theories driven by social media are driving Labour's collapse in Scotland, a leading Labour MP claimed today.

They have not yet been passed into law, but given that both Labour and the Conservatives seem intent on driving as many people as possible off incapacity related benefits, they are likely to be pursued by whichever party wins the election.

One senior Labour frontbencher said: «Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

Thus far, UKIP and Tories have been blamed for driving Britain into international isolation, but by using negative stereotypes and punitive language to describe the EU and Europeans, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are helping the Europhobes to validate the narrative that will eventually drive Britain out of Europe.

Deputy leader Tom Watson will accuse gambling companies of deliberately targeting vulnerable people «driven by greed» in a speech at Labour's conference.

There is some scope for more devolution, however, driven by SNP pressure and Labour's desire to look like it delivered «home rule».

That is why Tony Blair is going to try to drive the left out of the Labour Party before it can be reinforced by a radicalisation of the unions.

Scottish Labour convinced itself that the separatist mood was being driven by economic grievance.

This toxic path, proposed by Blue Labour, can not win votes for Labour, it only drives support away.

The proposals are being driven by deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman who will say in a speech on Saturday that Labour wants to «tackle the class divide», not merely «just provide escape routes out of poverty for a talented few».

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».

Who I am, driven by a passion for equality and social mobility, makes me determined that Labour looks and sounds like the country we aspire to govern.

Said only Labour could unite EU Leave and Remain voters, by running the economy better so that one blames migrants for driving down pay and conditions.

My own discussions with both defence analysts and Ministry of Defence officials suggest that most defence and security experts understood the 1998 SDSR — undertaken by the last Labour government — to be strategy - led, rather than treasury - driven.

Through an investment of # 2.3 bn per year to provide financial support for households to insulate their homes, and for local authorities to drive take up and delivery of insulation schemes, the next Labour government will drastically improve energy efficiency, bringing 4 million homes up to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C by the end of a parliamentary term.

There was a brief period before the 1997 election when it looked like the idea of «stakeholder capitalism», which explicitly recognises the tension at the heart of profit - driven business enterprise and seeks to mitigate it by empowering employees and the community at large in the decisions of otherwise independent businesses, might form part of Labour Party policy.

The following headlines splashed across the Mail: «The price of going soft on cannabis: Labour's experiment «pushed up hard drug use and crime», and the Telegraph: «Cannabis use soared by a quarter after Class C downgrade, study finds», and» «Softly softly» cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, study».

In another bizarre intervention Ken Livingstone has predicted on Putin's Russia Today that John McDonnell will succeed Jeremy Corbyn should the Labour leader have a stroke or get «pushed under a bus driven by Boris Johnson».

Labour's Diane Abbott said she had had a torrent of «mindless» racist and sexist abuse including death threats, while Tory MP Simon Hart has said colleagues were targeted by people who were intent on «driving them out of politics altogether».

Streeting antagonised allies of the Labour leader at this week's meeting of the parliamentary Labour party by saying that the party was being «driven off a cliff».

A Labour government will drive forward the economic and industrial policy that Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna have been developing to create more high quality jobs in every region of the country by reforming our banking sector, modernising our infrastructure, and working with businesses to get the long - term investment we need in growing SMEs and the high productivity, growth industries of the future.

Labour's drive to register new voters ahead of the election has not had an impact in other targets - the number of voters registered in Newcastle - under - Lyme, a key Tory target, has actually fallen by more than 2,000 since 2015.

«Labour's promise to reinstate student grants and EMA support would be a positive step in reversing the lack of investment in young people which has been driven by current Government policy.

The Ukip leader called Theresa May's decision to call for a snap general election a «cynical decision driven more by the weakness of Corbyn's Labour party rather than the good of the country.»

Users can donate to the Miliband campaign but also to the Labour Party, and a third of sums given to the drive will be donated by Miliband to Labour's fighting fund at the next general election.

Out of office: Gordon Brown, supported by his wife Sarah, announces in Downing Street that he will drive to Buckingham Palace for an audience with The Queen to tend his resignation after Labour failed to cut a deal with the Lib Dems

Labour took a lead in the polls in the second half of 2010, driven in part by a collapse in Liberal Democrat support.

There was a «real choice to be had between the progressive reform offered by Labour and the ideologically - driven retrenchment and deep cuts offered by the Tories», he said.

The clash between the Prime Minister and Ms Cooper came as Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Ms May of knowing «full well» of the problems faced by the Windrush generation, and called on the Government to ditch «bogus immigration targets that have driven this hostile culture».

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»