Sentences with phrase «labour movement»

The point is that too many people within the wider Labour movement talk as if there was nothing in the country but wealth or extreme poverty.

Regardless of the best efforts of the broader labour movement to improve working conditions for all, a large group is not convinced we are getting the job done.

But in busting assumptions about female workers, the strike also represented a broader change in attitude toward gender that affected the entire labour movement.

I think we could do with a bit more of that traditional labour movement ethics.

Like tech, the video games industry has never had a genuine labour movement.

Here you can find their expert views on trade union and Labour movement issues, as well as the latest legal news in serious injury, medical negligence and industrial disease.

Members must now decide who is best placed to unite the parliamentary party and the wider Labour movement.

A majority of Labour movement respondents think the next leader should support public sector strikes.

New Zealand About Blog The Standard newspaper — from where our masthead comes — was founded by labour movement activists in the 1930s.

A substantial portion of the Labour Party and the wider labour movement does not.

Abhyudaya Cooperative Bank Limited was started by a group of labour movement activists and social workers along other neglected and deprived weaker section of the society with a minimal amount of Rs. 5000.

Milliband should be clear that there will be no in - out referendum under a Labour government because we are for the EU, Labour is the party of Europe, but we want, in alliance with labour movements throughout the EU, to renegotiate its founding treaties which are currently tearing it apart in accordance with our own socialist principles such as an EU - wide living wage and EU - wide full employment.

Second, because labour movements at that time represented an important source of social solidarity and it was necessary to include them in the reconstructionist consensus.

It's been over twenty - four hours since the one - time boy wonder of the new Labour movement announced his intention to stand down from Parliamentary politics and head off across the pond.

This workers» festival originated in 1886 in the United States but did not seem to have an impact on the Canadian labour movement until the early 19th century.

The Westminster constituency was consistently held by the Ulster Unionist Party but always had strong Labour movement sympathies.

Our colleagues in BC's labour movement fought this all the way to the Supreme Court and won.

Two thirds of Labour movement respondents think the coalition is not legitimate, and Labour should still be in office.

Less to remember the great man, we were there to hear Frances O'Grady, the new TUC General Secretary and the first woman to occupy this most pivotal office for the British labour movement.

The political nexus around Blair and Mandelson are determined that this should not be allowed to happen again — even if labour movement opinion swings decisively against the parliamentary leadership.

This project seeks to investigate the evolution of the critical relationship between injured workers, injured workers organizations, and the Ontario labour movement.

Still, many worry that even if Dix is really as moderate as the image he's scrupulously projecting, he won't be able to resist the province's notorious forces of polarization, including a militant labour movement.

The package of reforms passed today is a significant step forward — not just for Welsh Labour — but the whole Labour movement in the UK.

Discussing the pamphlet on Facebook, Osland also told friends that it «had the blessing of senior Labour movement figures».

In short, we in the PSAC and the broader labour movement face on every side staggering threats that call for all hands on deck.

In Bolivia, the imposition of the structural adjustment plan did not need the crushing of a powerful labour movement, as was the case in Chile.

, built as it was from the emerging Labour movement, any more than Labour could «strangle» the environmental movement and Green Party or the Liberal Democrats (despite your best efforts: little sign of success post-1974); or any more than the LibDems could conceivably «destroy and replace» the Labour Party in the next decade or two.

Indeed, many of them have their origins in the political and economic struggles of the nineteenth - and twentieth - century European labour movement.

Indeed, the entire Labour movement appears to have been paralysed by the spectacle of the Old Left on the march.

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposition.

Stanley Baldwin's accommodation of the rising Labour movement dominates the inter-war chapters and Harold Macmillan dominates the middle of the century.

As most of you will know, the big decision lies with an electoral college split equally three ways between the 271 MPs and MEPs, all party members (around 165,000) and members of affiliated trade unions and socialist societies (an eclectic bunch that includes the Fabian Society, the Jewish Labour movement, the Christian Socialist Movement, Scientists for Labour and the Labour Animal Welfare Society; you can see a full list here).

Although in the past conflict has often arisen between economically interdependent nations (viz. the previous peak of global trade in 1914), the China - ASEAN relationship is one of fundamental interdependence of production, visible in the prevalence of international supply chaining in manufacturing processes, rather than solely trade and labour movement [i].

Scotland, with the lowest Tory vote in the UK, will become an immense thorn in Blair's side because the Scottish Assembly will create an independent base of political activity for the Scottish labour movement.

Smith has to some extent chimed with arguments that presents class in lifestyle and consumption terms rather than traditional labour movement arguments about structural position, conflict and mobilisation.

The founder of a grassroots Labour movement closely tied to Jeremy Corbyn has warned MPs against launching a civil war with the party's members.

Labour movements often deal with issues like this, for example, an industrial dispute that covers a workplace chapel, of a trade section, of a trade union, which is affiliated to at least one Trades Hall Council, both the union and TUC being (factionalised) affiliates to a political party, which holds government, which runs the chapel section of the workplace in the first place.

Hunt pointed out that the tendency to think of Labour's heartlands as the «industrial cities only» masks the fact that there has always been a big Labour movement on the coast, because «poverty and injustice are frequently found in seaside towns».

In 1969, when Kofi Abrefa Busia came to power, he expressed his support for the existence of a «free and independent labour movement» but the relationship was soon to deteriorate.

Since the political Labour movement was born (in 1893), Labour candidates have stood in 31 General Elections.

We feel powerless in the face of inflexible EU legislation, and concerned about lifting labour movement restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian citizens — especially since unemployment benefit is 2.7 times Bulgaria's minimum wage.

Last week, he wrote a begging letter to UKIP voters, published in that traditional labour movement paper, the Express.

This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.

One MP, David Winnick, did criticise the leader openly, while a number of senior figures in the wider Labour movement also waded into the debate.

That theme has been picked up by Lord Glasman, the driving force behind the Blue Labour movement - which aims to revitalise the party's traditional grassroots support - and an influential adviser to the Labour leader Ed Miliband.

We need to be developing an alliance with what remains of the unionized labour movement: at a minimum to support the development of training programs for fossil fuel sector workers, and more ambitiously to support the emergence of an electable political ideology that calls for the transition away from capitalism intent on endless growth in consumption.

The following is a two paragraph excerpt from the Dunlop Commission of 1994 and these members were not by any stretch of the imagination radicals in or of the U.S. labour movement.