Sentences with phrase «over labour issues»

Not exact matches

PROPERTY owners and developers face uncertain times — and labour relations is one issue that could well cause headaches over coming months.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

Critics of the trade pact, including many labour unions voice concern over a number of issues, including the potential loss of manufacturing jobs and foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.

There are other reasons to boycott Nestlé, such as concern over its exploitation of water resources (see Council of Canadians boycott call), treatment of dairy and coffee farmers, accusations of child slavery and labour in its cocoa supply chain and other issues (see report to the UN Global Compact office, 2009).

The reform has been labelled a «bedroom tax» by Labour, which has encouraged its backbenchers to bombard David Cameron over the issue in prime minister's questions.

There are no «issues of concern» over the manner in which secret Labour donor David Abrahams was granted planning permission for a Durham business park, auditors decided today.

In third place was a piece which pointed to Labour's row with the BBC over the on - air resignation of Stephen Doughty as an example of how Corbyn's supporters are allowing conspiracy theories to obscure bigger issues for the party.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Ministers are hoping to win over rebel Labour MPs who threaten a government defeat on the issue of pre-charge detention.

«The Balls intervention perhaps highlights how there may be a range of different political responses to arguments about how and why part of Labour's electoral defeat was that it struggled with middle income, and particularly C2 voters, over issues like crime, welfare and immigration.»

One Labour party member after another has been suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism in recent weeks, so is it just a problem for the left or a far bigger issue?

Labour is on the back foot over the issue of electoral and political reform.

«As a party we have always been defined by our internationalism», he told his Labour colleagues, divided over the issue.

The Sun's change on the issue hints at why Labour has not savaged the Liberal Democrats for the liberal position the party has adopted over recent months.

But long before the internal debate over Labour's new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the day — and one for which Miliband's team never managed to craft a decisive message.

[67] The Labour Party opposes selection and Thornberry was widely criticised over the issue as a result.

His message comes as the ex-head of Labour's disputes panel, who quit over an anti-Semitism row, claimed the issue is «being stirred up».

By June 2011, as the UK economy headed for recession, Balls had largely set aside the issue of Labour's economic legacy and was locked in battle with George Osborne over how to lift the economy out of a deepening slump.

The concern about the neglect of the English issue was echoed by Jamie Reed, the shadow health minister who wrote in Progress magazine: «It is in the peripheral areas outside of our major conurbations all over England where the next Labour government must concentrate its efforts.»

Fully 63 % of members believe Labour isn't doing enough to hold the government to account over Brexit and 53 % think Corbyn has handled the issue badly.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

During PMQs today, Ed Miliband and David Cameron engaged in a bitter war of words over the issue, with the Labour leader accusing the prime minister of being out of touch with the public.

However, the Labour chair of the European Scrutiny Committee last night raised concerns over whether the key policy issues in the treaty the government wants excluded, called «red lines», were being excluded as the prime minister claimed.

Winning over the middle ground is the only way to win majorities in the trade unions and Labour Party on individual issues.

Conservative challenger Nigel Huddleston gives his take on local issues, including crime, immigration and the economy, as he outlines why he thinks he has the edge over his Labour rival.

Labour and the government are still at loggerheads over the need for a judge - led inquiry into the Libor interest rate row, after both sides refused to budge on the issue.

Mr Osborne had faced repeated criticism from Labour over the issue.

The economy was the most discussed issue on Facebook over the election campaign in the constituency lost by Labour's Douglas Alexander.

The row over Mr Cameron's decision to link the issues overshadowed the Labour Party conference, with Ed Miliband under pressure to support the changes.

Ms Gill is the latest Labour frontbencher to break ranks on the issue since Owen Smith was dramatically fired from his job of Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary in March over his support for a second vote.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced more questions over his leadership, whilst Labour leader Ed Miliband pledged to listen to voters on the issue of immigration, as Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship reports:

Two of the Labour councillors abstained and four failed to showing evidence of group division over the issue.

«There's really unique circumstances in Copeland, the Labour vote has been eroding over a number of elections now but this issue about the future of nuclear industry clearly dominated that election campaign, «he told BBC News.

After much deliberation on issues that led to the industrial dispute, the leader of the State Government delegation, elder Simon Achuba appealed to the labour leaders to call off their over six - weeks old industrial strike, which has paralysed government activities and has become a great concern to stakeholders in the state.

The Falkirk scandal comes against a backdrop of the standoff between Miliband and the unions over the issue of party funding, as the Labour leader attempts to switch to a direct relationship with union members.

Labour is the only major party to find itself divided over the issue.

So the committee on standards in public life was right to be optimistic by launching an inquiry into the issue trying to move on from the 2007 impasse over Labour's trade union funding.

But Labour backbenchers face a difficult dilemma over HS2 when the issue is voted on in the Commons this Thursday.

«After 60 per cent votes for sure fire election losers, IRA - supporting Shadow Chancellors and Scottish Labour unnecessarily splitting the party on issues over which it has no responsibility, we have a Shadow Minister telling «Stop the War» — a madcap coalition of trots, Islamists and anti-west fury chimps — that Labour will consult them on how it will vote on Syria.

Two other ministers could resign from their posts in government over the issue, and as many as 100 Labour MPs could vote against plans to update the UK's nuclear deterrent, it has emerged.

Many of the people, who boycotted Labour Students meetings and threatened to disaffiliate from Labour Students over the issue of OMOV, voted against OMOV for Labour leadership elections.

Norman Lamb argues for civilised dialogue over social issues despite «hysterical» reaction of some Labour members to coalition

«Local Labour branches all over the country have been debating this issue for a year and a half, and yet when it came to party conference in September the motions they had passed and the views they expressed were effectively junked.»

The shadow work and pensions secretary, Debbie Abrahams, is being investigated by Labour over a «workplace issue» understood to be connected to claims of bullying, something she has vehemently denied.

NUPENG had, in a release dated Jan. 31, given a 15 - day ultimatum to government over six labour issues between some of its members and their respective companies.

With the advent of New Labour after 1994, being pro-European was part of the «modernising» process: a development that coincided with the moment when the Conservatives were tearing themselves apart over the issue.

Jeremy Hunt has been able to target Burnham's record, especially in relation to mid-Staffs, and has managed the unprecedented achievement of putting Labour under pressure over an issue which they own - at least, in relation to the Conservatives.

They are in disarray on this issue, with over 50 Labour backbenchers backing a Commons motion opposing Government policy.

Michael Gove has issued some of the strongest criticism of Labour after the failed vote over military action in Syria.

At the same time he issued a plea to the Parliamentary Labour Party, 172 of which issued a vote of no confidence in him, to unite behind him once the leadership election is over.