Sentences with phrase «many trade union members»

Or suppose you were a trade union member who had worked and marched and argued with her.

It's a fair system — the trade union member has to proactively sign up for affiliated status.

And it's based on using volunteers, ordinary residents, Labour party members, trade union members, members of faith groups, civil society.

This has now been changed to one - member - one - vote, although affiliated trade union members can sign up to become affiliated members and get a vote that way.

The project has been developed by the trade union members of TUSDAC (Trade Union Sustainable Development Advisory Committee), a joint TUC / DEFRA body.

Now MPs say they have received «clear proof» from Unite of blacklisting targeting trade union members working on the Crossrail contract.

The day after unveiling his plan for individual trade union members to «opt - in'to being members of the party, Miliband addressed Labour officials at their Brewer's Green HQ.

It is trade union members that would pay with their jobs for a Tory government that would cut immediately and strangle the economic recovery at birth.»

Instead Miliband will insist the switch to an opt - in system, in which trade union members actively choose to affiliate with Labour, is needed because it could restore Labour's status as a mass membership party of the people.

New joiners who are not trade union members need to be told of the importance of trade unions and directed to appropriate unions.

That is the overwhelming, unambiguous message from Scotland's people, including its trade union members, on Thursday.

Ed Miliband told Channel 4 News: «I'm incredibly angry about what's been happening in Falkirk because it is undermining the good name of trade union members, of Labour party members and the Labour party, and I'm not going to have to have it.

Appearing at before an audience composed primarily of trade union members, Cuomo added an extended reflection on his Queens roots to his campaign speech.

A considerable number of trade union members already exercise the right to contract - out of the political fund, so the case for changing the procedure in isolation and outside of a broader examination of party funding is not especially strong.

However, trade union membership has also been in steep decline since the 1980s and it is, of course, far from clear that all trade union members also support the Labour Party.

In 2010, 37 % of Party members were women and whereas 55 % of trade union members are women.

Britain has just six - and - a-half million trade union members, which represents barely one - quarter of the nation's workforce.

But this is what could be happening to millions of trade union members each year as trade union membership forms fail to notify members of the political levy added to their membership fees.

How many Labour Party members are trade union members?

This, together with the public sector pay freeze, will hit the government's spending plans and trade union members.

As well as encouraging trade unionists to join the Party, we need to get Labour Party members to become trade union members.

In the aftermath of the General Strike, the then Conservative government sought revenge on the unions by changing the law through the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927, such that trade union members must «contract - in» — that is, make the decision to pay into the fund rather than opt out.

However we view the decisions of the Spring Conference, there is a challenge for all now to show that Labour is relevant to trade union members.

She continues to take up many of the issues that affect trade union members, like poverty and low pay.

Trade union members who actively want to be part of the Labour family will be asked to make a conscious decision to opt in and then to affiliate.

The leader is elected by the PLP (which is made up of all Labour MPs), trade union members affiliated to the Labour party, and ordinary party members.

• I am a trade union member, and as my trade union is affiliated to the Labour party, I was told I would have a vote in the leadership election.

Trade union members therefore have no option but to take strike action.

The working class voice can not be expressed within the Party by individual trade union members spread thinly across all the local CLPs.

In many of the marginal seats that Conservatives have to win to gain an overall majority in 2015, trade union members could hold the balance of power.

Delegates voted to end the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introduce a «one member, one vote» system in leadership elections.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

We are trades union members who know a better business environment means more work.

We also have concerns about the proposed treatment of affiliation fees from trade union members.

Miliband announced earlier this year that trade union members will in future have to «opt in» to allow their union fees to fund the Labour party.

A recent YouGov poll revealed that 60 % of trade union members affiliated to Labour believe Mliband's reforms are «sensible.»

In Belgium thousands of trade union members demonstrate in Liege, while in Asia protest erupts in India, Nepal, Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia.

Last week Michael Gove gave a speech which, among other things, differentiated between opposing trade union leaders and trade union members.

«The fact that the party has suspended a high profile trade union member is bound to have a «chilling effect» on other members who may support one candidate or the other in the leadership contest and who may express critical political opinion or comments concerning one or both of the two leadership candidates.

Crucially this is a power that can be carefully targeted on marginals, where trade union members may make a difference in constituencies where there have been large local government redundancies or dissatisfaction with the health service.

There is «some moral justification» to Labour's plan to end the automatic affiliation fee for some trade union members, Unite leader Len McCluskey has said.

Under the new rules, affiliated trade union members will have to choose to become a supporter or member of the Labour Party.

I remember being at Warwick in 2008 where our National Policy Forum (local activists and trade union members) met with all the frontbenchers and special advisers to agree on the manifesto and it was clear that we had become timid, institutional and unambitious.

If trade union members» contributions were each allowed to count individually rather than collectively, that would change everything.

What's more, trade union members even get to have a say over where there money is spent.

Jon Ashworth, the shadow cabinet minister, accused the Tories of seeking to rig the political system with planned cuts to «Short money» and new rules to discourage donations by trade union members.

Since some leading trade union members of the NEC are known to favour circulating ballot papers to all levy papers — as was the previous practice — with votes being counted provided that levy - payers tick the box to opt into affiliated supporter status, the union influence may in fact not change so much from the process that selected Ken Livingstone.

«I am humbled by the more than 193,000 members, supporters and trade union members who have put their faith in me and I want to say a big thank you to them.

Turning to Trade Union members, David Miliband again comes top on first preferences with 34 % support, followed by Ed Miliband on 26 %, Diane Abbott on 17 %, Burnham on 13 % and Balls on 11 % — the same order as amongst members.

There is «some moral justification» to Labour's plan to end the automatic affiliation fee for some trade union members, the leader of Unite has said.