Sentences with phrase «of labour movement»

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The new economy is powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge, and many question the relevancy of the labour movement in the 21st century and whether unions are meeting the challenges of the globalized world.

The second, less well known group was painted in the 1960s in the mining valleys of South Wales, the heartland of the Labour movement.

Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language (30 September 2017 — 25 February 2018) at the Whitworth and throughout Whitworth Park explores the history of Suffrage and the birth of the labour movement.

In stark contrast, the mainstream values of our labour movement, both for good and ill, derive from the experience of collective organisation.

While most members of the Labour movement will read anything in the Mail about unions with a level of scepticism, on this occasion the basic facts seem to be incontrovertible.

It hasn't just been bolted by the voters it's been bolted by the majority of the Labour movement.

«This year's celebration therefore presents an opportunity for a collective reflection on the contributions of the labour movement to national growth on the one hand and the steadfastness of the Buhari administration to the welfare of workers on the other,» he added.

An understanding of, and commitment to, the values of the Labour movement.

Her willingness to contemplate cuts in unemployment benefits alienated her from much of the Labour movement, although she did not follow Ramsay MacDonald into the National Government that assumed office when the Labour government fell in August 1931.

Similarly, Wadda confessed that the union would do all things to preserve the unity of the Labour movement in the country.

As Ralph Milliband, the father of the current Labour leader, noted, Labour became obsessed with defending existing parliamentary forms but that is not the heritage of the Labour movement.

The author rightly emphasises the commitment of the majority of members of the Labour movement — including the trade unions — to parliamentary democracy and the evolution of progressive politics.

Certainly for most of the twentieth century the more that certain members of the Labour movement emphasised «socialism», the more likely they were to frighten Liberal voters into the arms of the Conservatives.

He brings his deep knowledge of the labour movement.

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.

The Lords are currently debating the trade union bill that has been designed quite clearly to damage the organisational capabilities and finances of the labour movement in general and the Labour party in particular.

And he said that in many ways Scottish Labour was the «least modernised part of the Labour movement» and that he wanted his successor to be elected under a one member, one vote system.

I'd love to have the chance to research and write a book about one of the things that fascinate me: perhaps the growth of the labour movement in the north east as the industrial revolution gathered pace, or the later history of imperial Rome.

Three quarters of Labour movement respondents say Labour did not deserve to lose.

Blair and Mandelson know that their political project — to eliminate trade union and rank and file influence from the Labour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movement.

The social base of the labour movement, notably trade union membership, has suffered a marked decline.

A majority of Labour movement respondents think the next leader should support public sector strikes.

Industrial policy and the need for a vision of the role of the labour movement outside parliament will have to be at the forefront of a future Labour manifesto.

After more than a decade of retreat the time has come for the left wing of the labour movement to move forward.

Their recovery will not be automatic, and following the instincts of the Labour movement, rather than the voters, will move them further from victory.

Because Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party and the welfare state, he confronts not merely a small class struggle minority, but also substantial forces rooted in the traditional structures of the labour movement.

The first nine months of the Labour government have therefore confirmed that the battle over the future of the labour movement will pass through, not outside, the Labour Party.

On one side are those who believe Labour should stay true to its roots and back members of the labour movement in battles against big business.

It's great that David is so inspired by the achievements of the Labour movement; this might be because his party's legacy is so threadbare.

The Thatcher administrations indeed aimed to undermine the institutions on which the political strength of the Labour movement rested (i.e. big - city local authorities, council estates, monopoly nationalised industries, trade unions and local government authorities).

2) One of the oldest ambitions of the Labour movement is the classless society (or at least a society in which there is a less immediate division between people of different socio - economic backgrounds).

Deputy leader Tom Watson stated: «The whole of the Labour movement is devastated at Jo's death.

Does Blue Labour like the history of the labour movement, or does it prefer wider society?

It is largely correct in its argument that the abandonment of Labour's core principles would undermine the fabric of the Labour movement in Britain.

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.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

By the early 1990s, the New Democratic Party — the political ally of the labour movement — was in power in three Canadian provinces, including Ontario, and held 43 seats in Parliament.

Not exact matches

«There's been a process of very careful, graduated movements while the labour market has continued to outperform people's expectations,» Poloz said.

The Popular Unity Candidacy joins a line of far - left movements seizing the political momentum in Europe, from Greece's ruling Syriza party and Spain's own far - left Podemos movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour Party.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

Regardless of the best efforts of the broader labour movement to improve working conditions for all, a large group is not convinced we are getting the job done.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

After all, the history of North America's labour movement is an alphabet soup of unhelpful acronyms: USW, LIUNA, UFCW, AFL - CIO.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term decline.

This excellent book on why unions and a strong labour movement are essential building blocks of a sound economy and of a just and democratic society deserves to be widely circulated.

In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included members from business, labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.

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

Here we see the shape of struggles to come — in the nascent alliances and tensions between the labour movement and those on the front lines of the struggle for climate justice.