Sentences with phrase «few trade union members»

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

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.

«He is very much part of the New Labour agenda which did seek on many occasions to beat up the trade unions... part of a New Labour agenda which is very comfortable with our members going through the trauma of privatisation... We will not go back to a New Labour agenda based on privatisation, and fragmentation and globalisation that we have had over the past few years.»

Few union members know their rights, says BBC political editor Nick Robinson, so «the result is that many Tory, Lib Dem, Green or nationalist - supporting trade unionists unwittingly fund Labour and give their general secretary significant power in the party in the process».

More than 150 members of Madison Teachers Inc. — one of few teachers unions in Wisconsin that still have a bargained contract — and AFSCME and building trades union members filled the school district's auditorium Monday to urge the board to extend their contract.

(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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