Sentences with phrase «first labour day»

In 1882 the first Labour Day demonstration was held in Toronto but it was not until 1894 that London, Ontario celebrated Canada's first nationally recognized Labour Day.

It is an imported holiday; the first Labour Day parade was in Toronto in 1872, after the Toronto Typographical Union staged an illegal strike in support of a 58 hour work week and better working conditions.

Not exact matches

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

A rise in energy stocks led by BP, boosted by strong first - quarter results, kept Britain's FTSE afloat on Tuesday while most European bourses were closed for Labour Day.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- A rise in energy stocks led by BP, boosted by strong first - quarter results, kept Britain's FTSE afloat on Tuesday while most European bourses were closed for Labour Day.

He told Premier 150 people attended the group's mass in Brighton on the first day of the Labour Conference, but it has been the subject of some snide jokes within the party.

The story Jesus told reflects the conditions of first - century Palestine and we are to assume, as his hearers certainly would have assumed, (that the labourers hired later in the day expected to receive a part of a denarius, a denarius being a regular payment for one day's labour.

so if you want to conplain about folks that come to america and accept any kind of labour, then please be the first to get off your rear and go spend all day picking fruit and working on farms where these folks do a great job.

I have not made to be the first (consideration) of each day that excessive labour (9) should be performed for me.

Happy first day of September and the start of the Labour Day Weekeday of September and the start of the Labour Day WeekeDay Weekend!

We showed up in labour with our first baby just as the hospital cafeteria was closing, and delivered before it opened again the next day.

... I really emphasize very strongly with my clients about how to manage their early labours and sleep in early labour and I encourage them to consider Gravol [Dimenhydrinate]... for sleep, even like I said certainly the first night if they're starting early labour at night and even sometimes the next day like late in the day or early in the evening, if they're taking their time.

The Healthy Pregnancy Book takes you month - by - month through your pregnancy, answering all the questions you have about your baby's development, your own body's physical and emotional changes, medical technology you might need during pregnancy and childbirth, how to prepare for labour and delivery, and those first days at home with your new baby.

First - time moms can be in labour for hours, even days, and there are bound to be points where things get very boring.

I had a scheduled c - section with my first without any labour because we found out she was breech at 40.5 weeks, and my body did not make milk for about 4 - 5 days.

(If this baby were my first i wouldnt care what day and for how long id be in hospital for lol) Im not scared of labour or pain.

To add to his woes, a shattering opinion poll emerged on the first proper day of the conference, showing Labour slipping behind.

First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

Delegates to the Labour Party conference will have difficulty sitting down for the first couple of days.

Questioning the legitimacy of a Labour - SNP government and sketching out the draft of a Tory Queen's Speech: it feels a lot like we're picking up the first clues about what will happen in the critical days after May 7th.

David Miliband, tweeting on the first day of the Labour Party conference.27 / 09/2009 https://twitter.com/DMiliband

This afternoon the Labour benches were half - empty, as though half of them had forgotten that this is the first day back at school.

Speaking in Lokoja while addressing a rally held by Organised Labour to mark this year's May Day celebration, Bello explained that the N20 billion was the first tranche of the N50 billion applied for to clear salary arrears of the state and local government workers.

It was during the lazy, flat days of last August that the first signs of a Tory operation to expose the union takeover of the Labour Party emerged.

Beales had first proposed the idea in an internal memo two years earlier, but Miliband decided to hold it back until 8 April, a month before election day — despite his team's terror that Osborne might outflank Labour by unveiling the same policy in his final budget in April.

While some Labour MPs have bitten their tongues over Tory plans to limit child tax credits to the first two children, Phillips speaks her mind as we sit down at one of the tables behind Portcullis House on a hot summer day.

The Labour leader will promise to reverse the policy known officially as the «spare room subsidy» on the first day of his party conference in Brighton.

23:20 - First comments from our man in the Labour camp: «It's been a very busy day.

A succession of speakers at the Labour First fringe meeting, including Hilary Benn, Ruth Smeeth and Yvette Cooper, promised to oppose the policies and practices of supporters of Corbyn just a day after the Labour leader was re-elected.

The government wanted to increase the limit to 90 days in 2005, but Tony Blair suffered his first ever Commons defeat when Labour MPs rebelled in November 2005.

First, Galloway claimed that on February 22 2015, a day after failing to secure her selection as the Labour candidate in Bradford West, Naz Shah asked Respect if she could stand as their candidate in Bradford East.

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

Michael Gove's reputation appears to have disappeared down the pan, after a chat with a Labour backbencher meant he got stuck in the toilet on his first day as chief whip.

The first inklings that Labour would reject any kind of accommodation with the SNP came around seven days ago.

After days of frenzy over Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle, the schism in the parliamentary Labour party becomes a little more formalised.

As the Tories and Labour manoeuvred each other to a standstill on tax policy, Cameron pledged to introduce a new law within the first 100 days of a Conservative government to prevent any rises in income tax, VAT or national insurance in the next parliament.

The fact is that from the first day to the last of Labour's years in power immigration was out of control — and the British people won't forget that.

Issue by issue, during the first nine days of the campaign the Lib Dems have supported Labour against the Tories.

Following allegations, received in the last few days, about Carl Sargeant's conduct, the First Minister has removed him from the Cabinet and has asked Welsh Labour to launch a full investigation.

It is the first significant Commons defeat of Brown's premiership and Labour's first defeat on an opposition day debate since 1997.

The last Labour government was beaten back on attempts to increase the limit first to 90 days and then to 42 days.

All the day's political news as Labour MPs nominate leadership favourites and Theresa May holds her first new cabinet meeting

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

At the first day's hearing by the National Constitutional Committee (NCC) into Wadsworth's future in the Labour Party, around 40 Labour MPs and peers accompanied Smeeth to ensure she was able to be present to give evidence.

The Clegg initiative by coincidence comes the day after Labour fully joined the debate for the first time when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, called for a thorough overhaul of the way in which UK intelligence agencies are held to account.

Labour's new leader also hammers home his «straight talking, honest politics» message in the new film, released the day after his first party conference as leader.

Labour spinners spent much of the day tweeting denials both about the costs of these policies and the suggestion that Miliband or his front bench had even promised these policies in the first place.

Even if Corbyn wanted to call it a day, in a repeat of 2016, I doubt McDonnell would let him unless the permanent revolution is first guaranteed by Labour's conference.

The signs of dishonesty and deception were there from the very first days of Labour.