Sentences with phrase «of trade union activists»

He has the majority of trade union activists standing behind him.

Not exact matches

The concern comes in the wake of complaints by environmental activists and trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, has been deeply disturbed to hear of a savage attack on trade union activists in Baghdad as part of an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the country's trade unions.

Bruno writes that «Labour needs to become a party that is organically connected to its trade unions, its activists and the people of this country as a whole».

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.

This has been the big campaign of the year for the trade unions and left wing activists.

«Today, Netroots UK brings together a new generation of left activists, working and discussing politics online, withour paymasters the trade unions and many others.»

The following statement was published yesterday on Revitalise Scottish Labour, the website associated with the trade union left in Scotland and Scottish Labour activists involved in the Campaign for Socialism Today's Scottish Executive (SEC) was, to put it mildly, something out of the ordinary.

That Labour candidate is trade union activist Bernard Harkins who will hope the traditional Labour constituency built on coal mining will value this background ahead of banker Beattie.

It brings together the new generation of left activists, working and discussing politics online, with the veteran institutions of trade unions and many more in between.

In the first years of the twenty - first century, the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, former MP George Galloway (Respect), the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many trade union general secretaries.

In the beginning, only a small clutch of dedicated activists, trade unions and charities raised the red flag against the now hated EU - US trade deal, TTIP.

At a conference of the Scottish Campaign for Socialism on Saturday attended by a hundred leading CLP and trade union activists, MSPs, MPs and Scottish party executive members, former MSP Bill Butler said of the forthcoming leadership election:

He embarked on a series of meetings with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, MSPs, trade unions, council leaders and local activists.

Both organisations are mobilising a new generation of activists and concerned people from trade unions, churches and other organisations.

He added that if more members of trade unions were to join Labour it would «transform the party» with thousands of activists with strong opinions working at grass - roots levels.

The solution, the report concludes, can only be in the formation of new, more broad - based, inclusive coalitions and communities that take account of the diversity of civil society and the strengths of different parts of civil society, such as CSOs, community groups, online activists, the new protest movements, faith - based groups and trade unions.

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Mexican artist Dulce Pinzón was working as a trade - union activist with fellow Mexican immigrants.

, held on Sunday (11) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, brought together activists and academics from more than 20 social movements, organizations and trade unions to discuss some of the central themes of the struggle for social justice in combating climate change.