Sentences with phrase «leave the union last»

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Ford posted a record $ 1.2 billion profit in Europe last year but warned the impact of Britain's vote to leave the European union would put a dent in 2017 earnings.

He added that UKIP had achieved its political goal when Britain voted last year to leave the European Union.

The famously successful investor Warren Buffett — who has raked in billions guided by his motto to «Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful» — probably took a big loss like the rest of us after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week.

There had been some concern among Game of Thrones fans that the recent Brexit could affect filming in Northern Ireland, but HBO said last month that the U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union would not hurt the show.

The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a «Brexit» - a British exit from the European Union.

Over the last week, the risk of Britain voting to leave the European Union has soared.

Last week, U.S. stocks closed sharply lower, with the three major indexes posting their worst day since June 24, when U.K. ballot results showed voters had approved leaving the European Union.

Last quarter the bank said it would slash 3,000 jobs and closing 200 branches as part of a cost - cutting exercise in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

Many of the challenges standing in the way of growth were exposed when Britain voted last month to leave the European Union (EU), which I've been writing about for the past few weeks.

Last week's British vote to exit the European Union (EU) has spurred a flight to perceived safety and left many investors asking where to find opportunities amid indiscriminate selling of global risk assets.

Going into the UK's referendum to leave the European Union last month, the prevailing view was that the Stay camp would win by a narrow margin.

Part of why the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last month was to escape punitive taxes and regulations — indirect taxes — imposed by unelected officials in Brussels.

Overall, the IMF's prediction for global growth of 3.1 % in 2016 remained subdued, with the institution citing the uncertainty created by the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union (EU) and slower - than - expected US growth as restraining factors since its last set of forecasts in April.

After three spells at the club, M'Bolhi left CSKA last summer to join MLS side Philadelphia Union, though his debut was delayed after a bad car crash in Paris.

Last weekend against the Philadelphia Union, the changes included handing Joel Qwiberg his first MLS start at left back, and the Swedish defender had a mediocre performance.

Over the last year or so, we've heard plenty about «Soft Brexit» or «Hard Brexit», following the referendum vote to leave the European Union.

In the four months since the national team last trotted out at Wembley, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the Three Lions suffered a humbling Euro 2016 exit to Iceland and Roy Hodgson's successor Sam Allardyce lost his dream job after 67 days.

But Lancman has proven himself to be «exceptionally hardworking» on progressive issues that the left - leaning unions that dominated the party care about — including standing up publicly to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the millionaire's tax last year.

A lot has been made in the press and in the recent parliamentary debates about the moral obligation for members of parliament to respect «the will of the people» as expressed in the narrow victory for leaving the European Union in the Brexit referendum of last June.

WFP leaders had accused Cuomo of creating the Women's Equality Party ballot line last year as a way to potentially undermine the left - leaning, union - backed party.

«Last summer, after the country voted to leave the European Union, Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership, and since I became prime minister the government has delivered precisely that.

Given the absurd election rules ushered in under Ed Milliband (his most lasting legacy) and the unwavering backing from hard left union leadership, it is likely that Corbyn will emerge victorious.

The UK electorate voted to leave the European Union in June last year.

Last month, the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union revealed that former cricket player Ian Botham backed Brexit.

The progressive political party the Working Families Party split up over the weekend, with some of the last remaining major unions leaving the group.

David Cameron in the Sunday Express used it as an excuse to attack the European Union's Human Rights Act, while Tony Blair in the Observer claimed that he'd come up with a solution during his last years in power but it hadn't been implemented once he'd left Downing Street.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

Speaking just before Starmer, Evans said last week's high court case was part of a process that showed «the political class don't have the will to leave the European Union» and wanted to «water down» Brexit.

They would have been encouraged to believe that Benn was desperately unlucky to lose that contest, by a wafer - thin margin, because of last - minute union machinations and betrayal by a group of left - wing Labour MPs led by Neil Kinnock.

The left - leaning, union - backed Working Families Party has made little secret of its discontent over the last several months with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The whole prevailing wage issue is a big one for the left - leaning labor unions and the WFP and was the focus of a fight last year regarding the development of the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx.

Here's teachers - union cat's - paw Zephyr Teachout, the ludicrous left's candidate for New York governor last year, on the topic:

It's a perfect echo of what happened last year in the run - up to the Working Families Party convention, where Cuomo - aligned unions blocked the minor party from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, and spared Cuomo a mainstream, left - flank challenger on the general election ballot.

Last year he became the only prominent Liberal Democrat to advocate a vote to leave the European Union in the June referendum.

At the same time, Cuomo insisted the split withing the WFP, which endorsed his primary opponent Cynthia Nixon on Saturday, was between the activist wing of the party and its founding labor unions, which have left the organization on the eve of meeting last weekend.

Two years ago Arsene Wenger warned that the UK's decision to leave the European Union could have a lasting effect on the Premier League.

While the Referendum asked people if they wanted to leave the European Union last June, it did not ask if people wanted to leave the Single Market and Customs Union.

He said: «We have seen Tory backbenchers last week defying the prime minister to vote against the Queen's Speech; former Tory chancellors openly calling for Britain to leave the European Union; serving Cabinet ministers joining the chorus at the weekend, saying they would vote for Britain to leave the EU now; and the embarrassing spectacle and truly ludicrous sight of a British prime minister in Washington negotiating an EU - US trade deal, while back home members of his own Cabinet say they would vote to exclude Britain from its benefits.»

Last week the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union got a boost of sorts as former cricket player Ian Botham backed Brexit.

And whoever wins, given the disastrous electoral performance of all parties at the last election to the Left of Labour (with the sole exception of the Greens in Brighton), it will continue to deserve the support of the Left outside the Labour Party and in the trade unions.

Ward, the Port Authority boss who has won the support of a wide array of stakeholders, from transporation advocates to real estate developers to unions, is leaving office at the end of October, the Times reported late last night.

The transparency of lobbying, non-party campaigning and trade union administration bill, the legislation more familiarly known as the gagging bill, was left unscathed by MPs in the Commons committee stage last month.

That didn't work, however, and large local chapters of the SEIU and Communications Workers of America both left the WFP on Friday as a result, though they were not the first unions to split from the party since it almost endorsed Cuomo's last left - liberal challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in 2014.

First of all, the image above left comes from a rally that was held in Union Square last night in support of Vermont's marriage equality victory.

Last summer, a number of LGBT leaders ---- including Dr. Marjorie Hill, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis, Liz Margolies, executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network, Melissa Goodman, an LGBT and reproductive rights attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Amber Hollibaugh, the co-director of Queers for Economic Justice ---- told Gay City News they were strong backers of paid sick leave.

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

The Shadow Chancellor last week accused the party of carrying out a «rigged purge» of pro-Corbyn members following the suspension of Ronnie Draper, general secretary of the left - wing Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, who backed staying in the European Union during the referendum campaign, said the «three driving principles» for the party's EU negotiations based on the message from last week's Leave vote should be:

Conventional wisdom would have suggested that Mr. Cassidy would wait to see what Mr. Lynch got out of arbitration before making a deal — but the city was able to woo them ahead of time, and other uniformed unions could follow, leaving the PBA last in line.

But President Obama made paid leave a centerpiece of his State of the Union last year, and over the past year he has deployed labor secretary Tom Perez and senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett to states across the country to meet with officials to discuss ways to advance city and state legislation to create paid leave programs.