Sentences with phrase «paying affiliation fees»

A requirement to opt into paying affiliation fees would greatly reduce the amount of union cash given to the party on an annual basis, rather than in one - off donations.

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.

Once a union member has opted to pay the affiliation fee, they will then be contacted by the party to become an individual affiliated supporter at no extra cost.

But the strength of individual union votes will be determined by the number of people who pay an affiliation fee.

Not exact matches

If an individual midwife was affiliated with a hospital and had to pay fees to maintain that affiliation, then I guess one could amortize the cost of those fees across the expected number of transfers, but I suspect this isn't it.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

The result was quite predictable — around a quarter fewer trade unionists opted in to the political levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was mitigated in part by unions raising the affiliation fee for those who continued to pay into the political fund.

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.

For the first time, union levypayers, starting immediately with new members, will be asked positively to consent for # 3 of their political levy to be paid to the Labour party in an affiliation fee.

I do not want any individual to be paying money to the Labour Party in affiliation fees unless they have deliberately chosen to do so.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has set out plans to end automatic affiliation fees paid to the party by millions of union members.

In high dudgeon, the GMB have cut the affiliation fee paid to Labour from # 1.2 m to # 150,000.

He will propose an end to affiliation fees from the unions, switching to a system where individual trade unionists «opt in» to pay towards the party.

The one common requirement is they must provide all their levy paying members with an active choice about the payment of affiliation fees».

Some unions wanted to argue instead that an annual affiliation fee could be paid if someone had been given a choice, but did not actively reject making the payment and instead left the form blank.

When «contracting in'to the political levy was introduced in the 1920s, around a quarter of trade unionists stopped paying the levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was lessened by the raising of the affiliation fee.

He wants an end to affiliation fees - where members of supportive unions pay an automatic levy to Labour unless they opt out.

But Mr Miliband said on Tuesday he would end the automatic «affiliation» fee paid to Labour by three million union members and people should not pay Labour any fees «unless they have deliberately chosen to do so».

Some banks have affiliations with overseas financial institutions, but for the most part if you withdraw cash from an ATM without global partners you can end up paying a foreign transaction fee, whatever exchange rate they're offering and ATM fees.

All provisional HFA sites are required to pay annual affiliation fees to the HFA National Office.