Sentences with phrase «many trade unionists»

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I wasn't a trade unionist, so I didn't speak out.

Let us look now at a text, produced by the collaboration of Riccardo Petrella (economist at the Catholic University of Louvain), Charles - André Udry [Swiss economist] and Christophe Aguiton (militant trade unionist, secretary of ATTAC).

Christophe Aguiton: «My name is Christophe Aguiton, I am French, a trade unionist, but I am currently particularly active in movements against unemployment in France, with «Agir Contre le Chômage» and, at the European level, with the network of European Walks against Unemployment, Employment Instability and Exclusion.

She was a spokesperson on behalf of striking workers, a volunteer teacher in night schools for railroad workers, and an active trade unionist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

It included Protestants and Catholics (including the Jesuit Alfred Delp), aristocrats and trade unionists.

In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.»

Samuel Gompers expressed the trade unionist's lack of confidence in ministers accusing them of being apologists and defenders of the status quo and of using «their exalted positions to discourage and discountenance all practical efforts of the toilers to lift themselves out of the slough of despondency and despair.»

Ah, the «consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life,» which the Crusades, the various Inquisitions, genocidal forced conversions during the conquest of the Americas, complicity in the NAZI - engineered Holocaust [against Jews, Gypsies, trade unionists, university professors, disabled persons, outspoken Protestants, and others], complicity in Vietnamese Catholic genocide against Buddhists, etc., etc., etc.,... all render consistently inconsistent!

But nowadays some of our halfbacks are beginning to act like trade unionists.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

I've also received around 200 emails of support from fellow trade unionists and disabled people.»

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be joining other trade unionists, anti fascist, anti racist campaigners and the public tomorrow (21 June), in a national demonstration and carnival parade organised by Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

The process by which parliamentary candidates are chosen was also reformed so that trade unionists could be frozen out and replaced by young Blairites — people whose soft hands demonstrated the fact they had never worked in industry, or indeed anywhere except in think tanks or parliament.

Every budding politician and / or trade unionist should study the names of Tory ministers and apparatchiks who advised them.

Ronnie Campbell (Lab, trade unionist, Santa Claus) asks a terminally long question about banking bailouts.

Trade unionists get wound up about Royal Mail privatisation, but not the public.

The real world is more complicated than that, as any practical trade unionist will tell you.»

As a trade unionist I didn't join the movement in order to feather my own nest, or jump on a gravy train.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

«Newsflash Bill Lipton — When Democrats and trade unionists are uniting to defend America's working families against the Trump administration's attacks, you should be standing with us, not attacking us,» Samuelsen said.

He would also unite Labour MPs, members, trade unionists and the wider movement who want to come together and campaign properly on this as it matters so much.

In January, a group of trade unionists met with the Electoral Reform Society to discuss the key role that unions play in society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic Reform.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

Its adherents now — the John Reids and Jonathan Powells of the world — are as dated as they thought the trade unionists in the party were in their own day.

Adonis is the son of a Greek - Cypriot postal worker and a trade unionist.

Overall, Corbyn was supported by 59 % of members, 60 % of trade unionists and 70 % of registered supporters, giving him a hefty 62 - 38 victory over Smith.

A total of 506,438 party members, trade unionists and registered supporters (the latter paying # 25) voted.

They could come from party members, trade unionists and experts.

In the 1930s, socialist trade unionists formed the American Labor Party here basically to give people on the far left a way to support FDR and the New Deal without pulling the Democratic lever.

Clarke professed himself baffled by the assembled journos, cartoonists, MPs and trades unionists asking if we spent -LSB-...]

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

These groups of idealistic youngsters, anti-austerity trade unionists, and returning ex-members, can sense that victory is within grasp.

We are a group of trade unionists from the NUT, PCS, Unison, Unite and UCU who called a national convention to discuss the coordinated strike action which took place on 30 November 2011.

Ask who the Party chiefly seems to represent and C1 / C2 voters - along with much of the rest of the population - are clear: those on low pay and benefits, and trade unionists.

The political fund, which Plaid is asking trade unionists to opt out of, is used to finance all of our political campaigns, from supporting manufacturing in Wales to highlighting the murder of trade unionists in Colombia.

Contrary to what many public sector trade unionists would like us to believe, voter perceptions of the quality of public services have not worsened, and in some cases — local public transport — have actually improved since October 2010.

Labour previously used an electoral college of MPs / MEPs, party members and trade unionists to choose its leaders, including Ed Miliband in 2010.

The result was quite predictable — around a quarter fewer trade unionists opted in to the political levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was mitigated in part by unions raising the affiliation fee for those who continued to pay into the political fund.

Not just on the issues, but training relevant to your own work as a trade unionist.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

In relation to External pressures, the link was threatened as early as 1909, by court action brought by a Liberal trade unionist — Walter Osborne.

It was the same with the AES, developed with the input of large numbers of people, numerous economists, Labour party policy staff, trade unionists, shop stewards and convenors in companies like Vickers and Lucas Aerospace, Leyland and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, the Communist Party and many more.

The first is affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.

Let's ask Netroots Nation to post data about how many trade unionists attended, and make it a goal to exceed that number in 2012.

As an active trade unionist, he is co-ordinator of the UNITE Group of Labour Assembly Members.

This requirement for positive consent is a change: trade unionists were previously automatically entitled to vote in Labour leadership elections.

I have no reservations in recommending that every trade unionist should vote Labour, and that the unions, whether affiliated to the Labour Party or not, have an interest in promoting a Labour victory.

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