Sentences with phrase «of affiliated union»

Likewise, in the Trade Union ballots, I use the Labour List poll as a starting point but adjust them to reflect the likely effect of Union executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union members.

They have opened up a # 2 a month registered supporter scheme, which will allow people to join the «Unite Community», with members of the affiliated union able to vote in the Labour leadership.

The Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation is the co-ordinating structure that supports the policy and campaign activities of affiliated union members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local level.

A member of an affiliated union pays a political levy automatically, unless they opt out.

«Now, debating the internal arrangements of the Labour Party and the role of its affiliated unions is not the business of Westminster, nor, indeed, of this Congress.

Members of affiliated unions will be asked to give positive consent if they wish some of the political levy to go to Labour.

The trade unions are Labour's bankrollers and, while Miliband might persuade half of the affiliated unions to accept the changes, that will still leave a significant number of refuseniks.

The Chairman, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in the state, Bashir Mafara, announced the decision after a joint meeting of the affiliated unions in Gusau.

Yesterdays «news» on the Collins review of the Labour Party — trade union link is that Ed Miliband's reform plans are faltering: there's a hiccup in the negotiations between Paul Kenny on behalf of the affiliated unions and the Leader's office, but it's about -LSB-...]

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That's bad compared with the U.S. and the European Union, where the rates of inflation are 2.7 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively, but economists not affiliated with the government say the real figure is at least twice as high.

In a letter obtained by Vanessa Murphy of the Las Vegas CBS affiliate, detective Steve Grammas, the president of the union, called on Goodell to investigate Bennett for «obvious false accusations against our police officers.»

Among the organizations that have emerged in response is the Independent Drivers Guild, an affiliate of the Machinists Union, which represents some 50,000 Uber workers in New York City.

Among institutions, Benchmark and affiliated entities own 6.7 percent of shares, while Rizvi Traverse Management, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and DST Global are each shareholders of 5 percent or more.

None of the NDP supporters I have spoken with have been able to clearly explain how the union - affiliate vote process will work.

We stand up for the principles of equality, equity and social justice and we work with our affiliated unions and social justice partners to build a better world for all citizens.

I'm proud to say that the Canadian Labour Congress and affiliated Unions established the annual day of remembrance right here in Canada in 1985.

Government - affiliated China Association of Investments (IAC), plans to create the international Centre for Investment promotion Blockchain to implement industry standards, as well as unions and investment funds Blockchain.

AliExpress supports Alipay, the e-payment affiliate company of Alibaba Group, as a payment method, as well as Visa, Mastercard and Western Union.

Prominent contemporary political figures such as Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt were leaders of the 1970s Civil Liberties Union which was affiliated to the Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned to reduce the age of consent to four years old!

Wednesday's decision to move the case by U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a defeat for ABC News, a unit of Walt Disney Co, and returned the lawsuit by Beef Products Inc (BPI) and two affiliates back to the Union County Circuit Court in that state.

For Labour the question was the balance between individual and affiliated membership, and the role of the trades unions was undoubtedly strengthened by wartime mobilisation.

All of which may help explain why Labour's rejection of McDonald's request to purchase a # 30,000 exhibition stand at its upcoming conference — on the basis the fast food giant is refusing to recognise Labour - affiliated trade union the BFAWU — was so controversial.

Signing onto the letter include groups ranging from the Working Families Party and their affiliated organizations and labor unions as well as groups that advocate on behalf of the disabled.

She was the only candidate nominated for the post, with 32 of the 54 affiliated unions putting her name forward.

WFP leaders and their affiliates could pay a hefty price for shunning Cuomo in favor of Nixon over the objections of its union benefactors.

Now, he is the most popular candidate among trade unions and grassroots Labour activists, having been endorsed by 162 Labour constituency parties — ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — and by six unions, including Labour's two biggest affiliates, Unite and Unison.

It would be a mistake for Labour to adopt this system in its purest form; it is both just and necessary for affiliated trade unions, as the founders of the party, to have a say over the leadership.

Of those that did, many did not vote the way their unions suggested they should, with not all affiliated unions supporting Miliband.

Gone will be the «electoral college» through which the affiliated unions have one - third of the votes for the party leader.

By September, Miliband had received the support of six trade unions, including both Unite and UNISON, 151 of 650 Constituency Labour Parties, three affiliated socialist societies, and half of Labour MEPs.

The suggestion is that that Unite and other affiliated unions have accepted that Miliband and his supporters will not budge on this — and so they are making the best of a bad job.

But Lipton accused the guv of threatening retaliation against unions affiliated with Nixon endorsers.

[43] In the fourth and final stage of the redistribution of votes after three candidates had been eliminated, Ed Miliband led in the trade unions and affiliated organisations section of the electoral college (19.93 % of the total to David's 13.40 %), but in both the MPs and MEPs section (15.52 % to 17.81 %), and Constituency Labour Party section (15.20 % to 18.14 %), came second.

Individual members and registered supporters now vastly outnumbered affiliated members (that is, most of the union members eligible to vote).

What was once a balanced group of grass - roots activists affiliated with groups like Citizen Action and the Long Island Progressive Coalition and labor unions has tilted a bit toward the activists.

However, the PLP still held 30 % of the vote with 30 % going to constituency parties and 40 % to affiliated trade unions.

Only the leaders of the three biggest affiliated trade unions sounded any notes of caution.

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.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is intending to offer the chance of becoming an affiliated supporter to every CWU levy payer before the General Election.

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.

The NPF is made up of 204 members representing parliament, European and devolved assemblies, local government, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and others, and individual members of the Labour Party, who elect representatives through an all member ballot.

The New York State AFL - CIO is a federation of 3,000 affiliated public sector, private sector, and building trades unions throughout the state representing 2.5 million members, retirees and their families.

The previous week, Cuomo reportedly threatened retaliation against unions affiliated with groups that endorsed gubernatorial challenger Cynthia Nixon, such as Citizen Action of New York, Make the Road Action and NYCC.

A poll of 2,010 Labour Party members and Labour - supporting members of affiliated trade unions was conducted between 3 and 14 September 2010.

Both the Business Council and the Partnership for New York City are affiliated with The Committee to Save New York, a coalition of private - sector unions, real - estate organizations and business groups that have backed Cuomo's fiscal agenda.

Only one of the 15 affiliated unions, Unison, currently offers its members an opt - out option.

Worse still, it finds that «more than half of those are affiliated to Unite, the giant Left - wing union which is targeting as many seats as possible to exert maximum influence over Ed Miliband.»

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.

Near the close of the meeting, some trade unions and Labour's left suggested the reforms could be ditched in five years» time if it emerged that the plans to recruit union political levypayers as affiliated supporters were not working or were putting the party in financial jeopardy.

It is understood that the longstanding system for paying the affiliation fee in the public service union Unison already meets the party's proposed consent criteria, putting Unison ahead of other unions, with a pool of 400,000 collectively affiliated members from which the party can recruit immediately as individually affiliated supporters.