Sentences with phrase «growing trade union movement»

His 12 - point platform includes growing the trade union movement, creating worker - owned cooperatives and opposing free - trade agreements.

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Rather, Blue Labour is a restoration of the distinctly Scottish labour and trade union movement which grew out of the mutual improvement societies.

It is the movement of power from locally appointed and accountable chief constables to an organisation that is both a private company and a trade union with a closed shop: the Association of Chief Police Officers, which has grown to dominate the field of policing without the sanction of the House.

The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the nineteenth century.

Fears are growing across the labour movement that unless the Government backs a series of key amendments to the Employment Bill as it enters its key Commons» stages on Tuesday (November 4th) trade unions will become highly vulnerable to infiltration from the BNP and the far right.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

www.whiteband.org «Challenging the institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty and inequality across the world to defend and promote human rights, gender justice, social justice and security needed for survival and peace» The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, -LSB-...]

In this hour, we'll travel Down Under to see a growing climate movement that is as diverse as it is, visiting a primary school where climate action is on the agenda and hearing from Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, about labor's vital role in the climate fight.