Sentences with phrase «powerful trade union»

Jeremy Corbyn - who also backs unilateralism - has also been warned by Labour's powerful trade union backers not to overturn its pro-Trident stance.

Assuming that the label means something we have to think it means he's the candidate that stands for greater equality, for challenging the unfairly powerful and undeservingly privileged and the person most committed to giving us a powerful trade union able to meet and match the worst a Tory government can throw at us.

At the same time it saw the strike as a way to take out the powerful trade union movement.

Like Thatcherism, Sarkozyism was deeply anxious about national decline, decline caused by restrictive labour practices, high taxes, uncompetitiveness, powerful trade unions and a bloated public sector.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Not exact matches

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

The most powerful players were divided between a free trade perspective promoted by the USA and a cultural policy perspective defended by the European Union.

In 1987 Thatcher proclaimed «there is no such thing as society», 22 years later we have a community organiser, supported by the trade union movement, in the most powerful job in the world, President of the United States of America.

The false weapon of community backing, shamelessly exploited by LILCO and its Wall Street and nuclear industry buddies, and the lobbyists, banks, insurance companies and the powerful construction trade unions, was dramatically snatched right out of their hands.

But Jeremy Corbyn's most powerful ally in the trade union movement has provided a clue in the form a blistering article for the New Statesman.

The powerful union boss said he and the leaders of the other main trade unions - which plough millions of pounds into Labour's coffers every year - wanted to sit down with the party's warring factions to end the in - fighting.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

After months of sitting on the sidelines, the city's powerful hotel trade union finally threw its support behind Mayor Bill de Blasio's in his...

(Another part of that proposal, a requirement for special permits for hotels that has the backing of the powerful hotel trades union, has not yet been introduced.)

The leader of the country's biggest trade union said «powerful interests» were behind the «attempted political lynching» as he confirmed Unite «would stand by Jeremy».

The powerful Unite and GMB trade unions, which have thousands of members employed in the nuclear weapons industry, have warned Mr Corbyn not to ditch Labour's support for Trident.

The Government may be cautious about direct attacks on the trade unions but this morning's newspapers give a sense of the coming confrontation between the powerful public sector unions and the people who depend upon public services.

The global financial crisis of 2008 would be seen as a turning point on par with the winter of discontent of 1978 (after which Margaret Thatcher persuaded Britain that «the state and the trade unions had grown too powerful and that markets needed to be given free reign») and on a par with the establishment of the welfare state in 1948.

Even though the regulatory institutions were stronger than those fostering Europe's carbon cap - and - trade system, the European Monetary Union proved relatively ineffective at keeping its powerful members in line when commitments grew inconvenient.

The parallels are more powerful even to the actual politicians and trade unions.

The government generally lathers less regulation on firms, and trade unions are less powerful than those in many other countries.

We have advocated professional unity for many years, and this is a big step towards realising our goal of a strong unified profession and a powerful union which would be a significant force for teachers, education and the trade union movement.»

There is less government regulation of firms, and trade unions are less powerful than in many other countries.

[2] Teachers unions, then, represent one of the last politically powerful, publicly present trade organizations in the United States.

In our socialist Canada, trade unions are powerful forces embedded in every profession and affecting all walks of life.

First, having been a member of what I considered to be a militant (most seem to be militant in my estimation) trade union (United Association of Steamfitters and Plumbers of America, Local 46, Toronto) for approximately ten years, I would concur with you vis a vis your apparent assumption that said unions have worn out their societal usefulness, and now serve only the purposes of their membership, and to hell with the public interest economically speaking, not to mention the absolute chaos the actions of powerful public sector unions create when they cause their entire membership to go on strike, for eg., the Toronto garbage workers» strike, the Toronto transit workers» strike etc..