Sentences with phrase «labour movement fought»

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

But there's pressure everywhere to surrender on this principle, and it's absolutely critical that the Left of the labour movement fights back and pushes the other way.

Not exact matches

It refers to the Labour Party as a «movement» fighting for social justice and social equality.

In stark contrast, name one thing that the Labour movement has achieved without having to fight for it by way of direct action?

For the entire twentieth century the battles over policy in the labour movement have been fought within a unitary Labour labour movement have been fought within a unitary Labour Labour Party.

«The high rate of spoiled ballots and lower turnout in elections fought under AV should trigger an alarm to those in the Labour movement who care about democracy,» she said.

But it is Smith's response to those concerns that, perhaps, gets to the heart of why so many in the parliamentary Labour party believe that the fight to remove Corbyn from his post is, in fact, a fight over whether Labour is to be a social movement using parliament merely as a platform or a party seeking power through the Commons, and making compromises along the way.

He has been active in the Labour movement for decades and fights for working people as a UNISON official.

But he made clear both that the free movement of Labour and people would come to an end, and that Labour would not fight an election pledging to overturn the result.

Labour Remainers were hoping to debate the idea of the party fighting to keep Britain in the single market permanently and crusading to continue free movement.

«And what we are fighting for is consistent with two principles that have driven our movement from Keir Hardie's Labour Representation Committee onwards.

Within the labour movement we have a duty to be vigilant in our fight against racism as a barrier to equality and solidarity.

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.