Sentences with phrase «represented in the labour»

He also called on businesses to invest more in training, improve working conditions, and seek workers who are under - represented in the labour force.

Only 50 per cent of working age women are represented in the labour force globally, compared to 76 per cent of men.

This is particularly true when it comes to reaching groups under - represented in the Labour Party, such as women and ethnic minorities.

Not exact matches

Membership in private - sector unions has fallen steadily over the past 25 years and now represents just 17 % of the private - sector labour force.

Citing its small in - country footprint, a Gildan spokesperson said via e-mail, «Given that we own and operate our manufacturing facility in Bangladesh, which represents a very small portion of our total production capacity, we can directly implement our strict internal code of conduct and international labour standards.

Just as it was in the case of the cash cost of a residential property, this represents twice as many weeks of labour time needed to finance a mortgage as compared to the early 1970s.

But in busting assumptions about female workers, the strike also represented a broader change in attitude toward gender that affected the entire labour movement.

«The Mayors» Council plan not only quickly improves transit service with 25 % more buses, it will give those driving to work or school the option to leave the car at home and take transit, which is better for our environment,» McGarrigle said, adding that the BC Federation of Labour, representing over 500,000 unionized workers across the province, unanimously supported a resolution Unifor Local 111 introduced to endorse a Yes in the referendum.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

Networks from Canada and Quebec, representing labour unions; Indigenous, farmers, and migrant groups; environmentalists; women's organizations; international solidarity groups; student movements; and human rights organizations will join their American and Mexican counterparts at the historic Antiguo Palacio de Escuela de Medicina in Mexico City.

Note however that the proportion represented by this group increases in the years following a recession, a sign that economic cycles, and their effect on the labour market, play a role.

With labour costs representing about 60 per cent of value added in manufacturing, the net result has been a decline in overall profitability.

Considering that Canadian MSMEs represent the vast majority of businesses in Canada, employing more than 7.5 million Canadians — about 70 per cent of Canada's private sector labour force — it becomes clear how critically important they are to the growth of the Canadian economy.

The bread «which earth has given and human hands have made» represents the work that has gone into the making of the bread; not only the work of the farmer and the miller but the work of industry, of man's labour in the office, in the factory, or in the surgery.

Scottish politics is sometimes represented as historically and unmovably socialist and certainly it has returned significant numbers of Labour MPs to Westminster since the 1920s; but twice in the 1950s Conservatives held the majority of Scottish seats, though they now only hold one of the fifty - nine; and while Labour progressively came to dominate, the recent rise of the Nationalists shows that socialist «ownership» of Scottish poolitics can no longer be presumed.

The Thomas version has introduced gnosticizing elements into the parable, the tilled ground representing the aspect of labouring in the gnostic soteriology, and the great branch the growth of the «heavenly man», (B. Gärtner, Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, p. 232.)

It is an excess in an age where almost a billion people go hungry, and represents a waste of the labour, water, energy, land and other inputs that went into producing that food.

Industrial robots are recognised as the key components in the drive towards automation and represent one of the quickest ways of boosting productivity and reducing labour costs.

For low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour, the mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (representing, on average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (home)(table 4 ⇓).

According to him, the state government had also been inundated with allegations of collusion between some labour executives and the past administrations in cheating the very workers they claimed to be representing.

Labour MPs privately admit Liverpool - born Mr Nuttall represents «a clear and present danger» to their party in its northern heartlands.

I've argued on my own blog (http://hands-of-the-many.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-labour-will-change-be-moderate-or.html) that New Labour represented an understandable compromise with the upper class so that the overwhelming hostility to the party in the press would be lessened, and the party could communicate its message to a wider audience - and then, build the coalition which brought the party to office, and enabled the much - needed social democratic reforms to take place.

Mutualism has a rich history in the Labour movement and its principles are in many ways anathema to Conservatives, not least the notion of co-operative ownership of the means of production which represent a threat to universal property rights.

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

The seat she stood in wouldn't be represented by a woman until I won it for Labour, 92 years later.

Copeland also represents the largest increase in a byelection vote for the governing party since Labour gained Hull North in 1966.

But you have barely ever reflected our view — and that of many commentators from across the political spectrum — that the Conservatives want the SNP to win seats from Labour in Scotland because that represents their best chance of remaining in Downing Street.»

During the mid - to late - 1990s, he was politically active for Labour in Islington North, the constituency represented by Jeremy Corbyn, and was selected as Labour candidate to contest St George's Ward for Islington London Borough Council in 1998.

The Labour candidate expressed the position that the problems in accountability leading to the scandal had been fixed; his opponents noted that of the parties currently representing Britain in Brussels, only Labour has not yet disclosed their expenses (although Mr Vaughan states that the party will begin to do so soon) and Mr Griffiths furthermore declared that the scandal was part of a wider problem: the corruption of the political system by big business.

«In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent lLabour party could cease to represent labourlabour.

Labour MP Caroline Flint has said that independence would mean higher energy bills in Scotland, as its customers would have to pay more to support renewable energy in Scotland, which represents one third of the UK total.

This was particularly important in the context of the failure of the majority of Labour's new women MPs to represent women's interests — and the divisive use to which this was put by the government.

Such an outcome might still leave Labour with just three seats more than the Conservatives, but it still represents a more attractive prospect than the one Panelbase portrayed in their previous poll a fortnight ago.

Which brings me to my favourite part of this result: the strongest Green list vote we've seen since this polling sequence began, indicating a Green group five times larger than that which currently sits at Holyrood, primarily because Labour would no longer be so substantially under - represented in the constituencies.

The political range of Labour MPs represented by the vote echoed, but on a much wider basis, that seen around Labour's National Executive elections earlier in the year.

Labour MPs representing metropolitan constituencies may want to adopt an anti-Brexit stance, but MPs for constituencies in the North and Midlands which voted Leave will be keen to reflect local opinion.

Such an effect might also see Labour move back towards the vast majority of BME candidates in high minority population seats — ie less Parmjit Dhanda / Ashok Kumar examples of representing areas with low BME populations — but one difference between Labour and the other parties is that Labour does hold such seats, and so the effect of very strong local preferences in the other parties would be stronger.

I'd look at the final sentence of MsChin (33)... «Labour candidates are being parachuted in, they are not even local to the areas they want to represent.»

The 66 Labour MPs who voted with the Government on the main motion to support «taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria» represented well under a third of the 231 current Labour members of Parliament.

Any attempt by the media, or politicians from either inside or outside Labour Party to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the policies he represents flies in the face of what is clearly an overwhelming democratic mandate.

However, as long as we remain in the EU we can not protect the very people the Labour Party was formed to represent.

No doubt all politicians keep the party implications of political reforms in mind but Labour's own partisan interests, particularly representing 41 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, would appear to be playing a significant role in the party's difficulty in articulating any coherent view about England's place in the evolving constitution of the United Kingdom.

Conservative insiders say it represents their best chance of making inroads in Labour's north - eastern manufacturing heartland.

In her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.&raquIn her speech during the Conservative leadership contest in the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.&raquin the summer May also sounded even more radical than Labour's 2015 manifesto when she pledged: «We're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but employees as well.»

And the MPs who have rebelled against Corbyn's leadership clearly represent a majority within the parliamentary party, whereas the MPs who were expelled and went on to form the National Labour Organisation in 1931 and those who left to form the SDP in 1981 were in the minority.

The company put Labour at 18 % on the constituency vote and 17 % on the list — these represent the party's lowest ever tallies in a Survation poll and places them just a point ahead of the Conservatives on the constituency vote and a point behind on the list.

That doesn't accurately represent Miliband's political position — and it isn't exactly a winning position within Labour's electoral college in it either.

This result was viewed as a particular blow for Gordon Brown, who lives in the constituency, represented the adjacent seat and featured in Labour's campaign.

Labour's top candidate for Scotland is David Martin, who has been an MEP since 1984, when he represented Lothians (prior to the introduction of the reformed electoral system for European elections in 1999).

On these figures, the 325th MP, counting in from left or right, will represent Labour, but only just: a four - seat swing from Labour (or the SNP) to the Lib Dems, Conservatives or UKIP would give the median parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats.