Sentences with phrase «labour movement face»

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

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Faced with declining membership, plant closures, weak economics and political hostility, the Canadian labour movement is resorting to drastic measures.

It is killing the labour movement in the face of this recession and the surge in foreign takeovers.

On the face of it, there is a vacancy for a party of the centre, straddling the liberal wing of the Tory party and New Labour in exile — styled as a movement custom - built to deal with the challenges of the 21st century, when Corbyn and May are leading symmetrical retreats into dogmatic nostalgia of left and right.

Advising those looking to get a new face in the Commons, Osland states: «The top priority for the labour movement right now is to secure the election of more Labour MPs at the next general elelabour movement right now is to secure the election of more Labour MPs at the next general eleLabour MPs at the next general election.

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.

His critics will argue Merkel, in the face of opposition to free movement reform from eastern European countries, will always choose EU cohesion over changes to the labour market.

So when we finally beat the Tories in 1997, we faced a mixture of hope and optimism as activists in the labour movement.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

The link between workers» rights and support for the EU amongst the British labour movement is not new and dates back to the 1980s when the TUC — faced with a domestic Conservative government hostile to trade unions and following Jacques Delors» speech advocating a social dimension to European integration — withdrew its support for the UK's withdrawal from the (then) EEC and instead adopted a positive approach to UK membership.

It's an opportunity to focus on what the labour movement can do to continue to fight institutional and systemic oppressions faced by workers of colour and Aboriginal workers.