Sentences with phrase «of trade union membership»

The Plaid Cymru leader, who plans to stand in Labour - held Rhondda in 2016, set a target of trade union membership in Wales doubling by the end of the decade.

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At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.

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From a record 35.5 per cent of the work force in 1945, trade union membership has slipped to about 21 per cent today.

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.

If you belong to a trade union, whose memberships are made up of ordinary, hard - working people who want to «get on», you are labelled as a militant; spoiling for a fight and engaged in the «politics of envy».

Trade unions will have to submit to an annual audit of their membership and accept new limits on their spending power in election campaigns.

The Customs Bill and the Trade Bill are both stuck in Parliament and can't move forward until Mrs May conjures up a deal with the EU on Britain's membership of the customs union.

8) Trade unions should be recognised where 10 % of the workforce are members: There should be an overhaul of the statutory recognition procedure so that trade unions are entitled to be recognised by an employer on demonstrating 10 % membership and evidence of majority support verified by theTrade unions should be recognised where 10 % of the workforce are members: There should be an overhaul of the statutory recognition procedure so that trade unions are entitled to be recognised by an employer on demonstrating 10 % membership and evidence of majority support verified by thetrade unions are entitled to be recognised by an employer on demonstrating 10 % membership and evidence of majority support verified by the CAC;

It was portrayed as the passing of an era, an era when trade unions had the membership and ideology to be a force in society, an era when socialism was not a word to be shunned but embraced.

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 communiqué noted that the 15 man technical committee is constituted with the following membership (a) Federation of Trade Union side, seven members.

The trouble with this policy is that the government also wants frictionless trade with Europe - something which relies on membership of the customs union.

Trade union membership levels have been in decline over the last 30 years and are now at their lowest levels since the outbreak of the Second World War.

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

The points of greatest pressure will be first, those which impact onto the membership of the trade unions, secondly, those with the largest social forces behind them and thirdly, those where the trade union bureaucracy can not avoid the political contradictions with Blair.

Large public sector trade unions the GMB and PCS fail to advertise on their membership forms that subscription fees include an optional levy let alone giving them the right to opt - in or opt - out of paying.

However, trade union membership has also been in steep decline since the 1980s and it is, of course, far from clear that all trade union members also support the Labour Party.

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.

Corbyn won significant support last year and appears to still have the backing of the membership and trade unions, although there is some suggestion that this may be changing.

When faced with such a haemorrhaging of core supporters to the SNP, it is extremely worrying that Labour's membership is so out - of - step with the party's trade union base, especially when the membership in Scotland is so small compared wiith other parts of the UK.

When trade unions sign up their levy - payers as individual members, all they're actually doing is shifting them from one category of membership to another... to a category that still has the right to select candidates that affiliated members used to have.

The Labour Party is a membership organisation consisting of individual members and Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and the Co-operative Party, with which it has an electoral agreement.

Green had neglected to mention her membership of the GMB trade union when attempting to amend the Legal Aid Bill.

The meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working - class and left - wing organisations — trades unions represented about one third of the membership of the TUC delegates.

That suggests No 10 is seeking a free trade relationship for the automotive industry that at least brings benefits similar to membership of the single market and customs union.

Mr Brown argued: «What is clear is that at this time of global economic uncertainty, we should not be throwing into question - as some would - the stability of our relationship with Europe and even our future membership of the European Union - risking trade, business and jobs.»

Redwood's argument is that the UK is bound into the EU's trade policy by its membership of the customs union and that the EU's trade policy is to have no agreements with other countries at all — thereby leaving both us and them on back - up WTO trade terms when it comes to the rest of the world.

Similarly membership of an affiliated trade union grants the right to vote for the leader and deputy leader, but not for local candidate selection.

The sole advantage of leaving the customs union - signing your own trade deals - seems undeliverable regardless of our membership of it.

The membership of each of Labour's policy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politicians.

That result (overall 51.5 % vs 48.5 %) was based on Harris securing the support of the AMs / MPs and the trade unions / affiliates but losing the membership block.

Membership of political parties is both historically and currently low as a proportion of the population but membership of trade unions, if under the cosh from the anti-union laws and an unfavourable economy, still takes in one third of the working pMembership of political parties is both historically and currently low as a proportion of the population but membership of trade unions, if under the cosh from the anti-union laws and an unfavourable economy, still takes in one third of the working pmembership of trade unions, if under the cosh from the anti-union laws and an unfavourable economy, still takes in one third of the working population.

Barry Gardiner, the shadow trade secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «What we've said is that we need those benefits, and whether they're achieved through reformed membership of the single market and the customs union, or through a new, bespoke trading arrangement, is actually secondary to achieving the benefits.

In addition, we weighted the trade union data to the most recent published figures for the overall membership of each affiliated trade union.

Corbyn has accomplished this to some extent with the Labour membership and the leaders of the trade unions.

These kinds of shenanigans are by no means unknown in north east Labour politics, but have been somewhat less common with the decline of trade unions and the massive decline in active individual membership.

Minorities account for 17 percent of the workforce in Erie County, but only 11 percent of membership of 18 building trade unions.

How fair is it that 9 per cent of the membership of affiliated trade unions carries the same electoral weight as 72 per cent of Labour party individual membership?

In a unanimous decision, it welcomed «any measures which increase the involvement of individual trade unionists in the Labour Party» and, as had been advocated by Len McCluskey from the start, specifically agreed Miliband's proposal that «individual political levy paying members of trade unions be encouraged to «opt in'to associate membership of the Labour Party as part of the drive to build a Party of mass membership.»

Though a few of the larger credit unions allow you to join with a donation to a designated association, most credit unions restrict their membership by region or trade, so you will need to investigate the options available in your geographic and professional area.

f) membership of a trade union.

But in late 2004, Russia decided to pass the treaty — unexpectedly, and as part of a move to have its application for World Trade Organisation membership accepted by the European Union.

If you are a member of a Trade Union then your membership may include for legal funding which if available can be considered;

(l) to determine the form in which evidence of membership in a trade union or of signification by employees that they no longer wish to be represented by a trade union shall be presented to the Board on an application for certification or for a declaration terminating bargaining rights, and to refuse to accept any evidence of membership or signification that is not presented in the form so determined;

Furthermore, legislatures like the Equality Act 2010 and Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, outlaw any discrimination done on the basis of work status (against part - time workers, fixed - term employees, agency workers or union membershUnion and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, outlaw any discrimination done on the basis of work status (against part - time workers, fixed - term employees, agency workers or union membershunion memberships.)

(4) A trade union and the employer of the employees concerned shall not enter into a collective agreement that includes provisions requiring, as a condition of employment, membership in the trade union that is a party to or is bound by the agreement unless the trade union has established at the time it entered into the agreement that not less than 55 per cent of the employees in the bargaining unit were members of the trade union, but this subsection does not apply,

(b) a list of the names of the union members in the proposed bargaining unit and evidence of union membership, but the trade union shall not give this information to the employer.

The first principle is that the assessment criteria used to analyse the PNR data should not «be based on an individual's racial or ethnic origin, his political opinions, his religion or philosophical beliefs, his membership of a trade union, his health or his sexual orientation» (para. 258).

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