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.
We've helped
hundreds of trade union members and their families to bring compensation claims against doctors responsible for negligent medical treatment, alongside campaigning for improved patient safety.
For more than 90 years, Thompsons Solicitors has helped the families of
thousands of trade union members secure personal injury compensation in a wide range of claims involving road traffic accidents, medical negligence, serious injuries, and accidents in public places.
I am ready to engage with the Labour Party to find a way to re-engage hundreds of thousands
of trade union members with the party their forefathers and foremothers created.
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.
I have a message to the millions
of Trade Union members currently affiliated to the Labour Party: with this change I invite you to be at the centre of what this Party does, day in day out, at local level.
The national committee of the Labour Party's young wing, Young Labour, vowed on Wednesday night «to defend the
right of trade union members through their affiliated trade union to take part in the selection of candidates at every level of the party».
Is this the same Conservative Party that brought in an entire legislative framework to ensure regular
ballots of trade union members over the operation of their political funds and who passed the Trade Union and Labour Relations Consolidation Act 1992 preventing the transfer of monies from union general funds into political funds?
Thompsons Solicitors has helped hundreds of thousands
of trade union members receive 100 per cent compensation after suffering a serious injury — from burns and spinal injuries to fatalities.
Clare is an experienced solicitor representing a
mix of trade union members and private clients in cases of criminal and professional misconduct law.
The Labour leader's comments came as he hosted a special conference in London where delegates will vote on ending the automatic
affiliation of trade union members and introducing «one member, one vote» in leadership elections.
An alternative view is that
millions of trade union members will continue to pay a levy of perhaps # 7 a year on average, almost all of which will either be paid to the Labour party or used for its benefit.
Gerard Airey is a highly experienced employment law solicitor based in the Thompsons» London office, with significant expertise in handling multi-claimant employment law cases on behalf of trade union members
Since bringing the first ever successful asbestos case to the House of Lords in 1972, Thompsons has helped
thousands of trade union members and their families in take legal action following exposure to asbestos and secure hundreds of millions of pounds.
In 2010, 37 % of Party members were women and whereas 55 %
of trade union members are women.