Sentences with phrase «shift in labour»

This is potentially an enormous shift in Labour politics.

The comments mark a significant political shift in Labour's rhetoric since last week's economic turmoil.

Peter Oborne has written a piece for today's Daily Telegraph asserting that that there has been a seismic shift in Labour's attitudes towards the European Union in recent weeks, leading it to take «a new and potent position».

A sharp shift in Labour's policy could start to turn this situation around.

But it does show an important shift in Labour opinion.

In a major shift in Labour policy, the Shadow Foreign Secretary suggested she was willing for the UK to give up its ability to reach trade deals with other nations when it leaves the EU.

The speech confirms a noticeable shift in Labour's attitude to the market, since last week's financial crisis provoked outrage at the mistakes of senior bankers and the actions of speculators.

Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in labour relations and corporate communications, and is showing it can do more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

In a sign of the seismic shifts in Labour thinking, Tom Watson, the former Cabinet Office minister and one of Brown's closest allies, writing in the Guardian today, calls for a move towards an alternative vote system to «help rebuild the trust and authority given to our elected representatives».

The first phase will aim to support 10,000 workers, with a focus on young and Indigenous people and others who Google considers to be «particularly vulnerable to shifts in the labour market.»

With over twenty years» experience in this field, this Côte D'Ivoire lawyer has seen the ins and outs of the West African employment landscape, having worked with some of the biggest names, and witnessed some of the most impacting shifts in labour and employment law in West Africa.

Not exact matches

When the Kellogg's cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich., instituted six - hour shifts — back in 1930 — work - related accidents dropped dramatically, as did labour costs, turnover and overhead.

She believes the current high unemployment levels are an effect of the recession, rather than of structural shifts in the economy, and that the Fed must fight joblessness before dislocated workers become permanently detached from the labour force.

«I never hear talk about measures that would encourage upward harmonization of labour or environmental standards... tax measures that would prevent corporations from engaging in transfer pricing or discourage shifting profits to tax havens.

Despite the weakness in manufacturing payrolls (a loss of 36,000 jobs in goods - producing sectors in May) that accompanies this secular shift, labour market tightness has allowed for some moderate wage gains and further declines in the unemployment rate, beyond the influence of the declining participation rate.

In our December 2016 letter to Minister Morneau, we requested that the federal government take action on this file and specifically work to address the growing disparity between labour market supply and shifting labour market demands.

If we have a crazy shift with lots of labours going on and no one gets a chance to have a break (yeah, no break in 12 hours), they somehow make it a priority to give the pregnant diabetic nurse a chance to eat.

Meanwhile Labour has shifted its stance on the benefit freeze at least five times in half a month.

This entails shifting labour from low productivity jobs in agriculture to high productivity jobs in urban manufacturing.

Westminster and its watchers still see politics through the prism of left and right, Labour and Tory, it's a symptom of the tendency in London to ignore Scotland and the seismic shifts there but for two weeks in September 2014 when politicians and lobby alike decamped north (and complained about it a lot).

The Corbynite Labour left is simply the latest inheritor of past projects «to bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families», to use a formulation from Labour's programme in 1973.

The intervention signifies a distinct shift in thinking in the Labour high command, as party officials see a key opportunity for Mr Miliband to get a rare hearing with voters.

But we need to see UKIP in their proper context: firstly, they are a minority party and will stay there; secondly, they are growing in working class areas where the Labour Party's cultural shift left have lost longstanding voters.

A decision not to challenge Labour's position over Trident is being seen as a concession by the leadership towards the GMB union, which is strongly opposed to any shift in policy.

In the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conferencIn the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conferencin Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conference.

[3] «Labour MPs are beginning to detect signs of a shift in their leader.

Labour advisers were equally eager to tell me how the cost of living narrative that dominated their conference was also gamed out months earlier, and was not a panicked response to a shift in the national mood over the economy.

Liberal Republicans (Centre Republicans): Alan Milburn, Anthony Giddens (to a large extent), Richard Reeves, Philip Collins Democratic Republicans (Left Republicans): Gordon Brown, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Jim Knight, The Co-operative Party, Scientists for Labour, James Purnell has flirted with Liberal Republicanism, but may well have shifted to Democratic republicanism, as he proved in his resignation letter in the Times, calling for a more open democracy, a more active state and greater regulation.

Labour's shift leaves their MPs massively vulnerable in the North and Midlands.

We believe these measures would (i) produce a major shift in the perception of unemployment as a problem of the single market rather than as a strictly national problem, (ii) improve labour markets within the Eurozone, (iii) improve labour mobility in the currency area, particularly from «labour deficit countries» to «labour surplus countries».

His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by opposition to the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector.

However, by the end of the month, the lead has fallen to just 6 points, with YouGov analysis showing a big shift in support among Labour supporters.

Lloyd George and other Liberals mishandling and double dealing were contributing factors in the major shift in allegience to Labour throughout the twenties and on.

«Otherwise the next Labour politician who thinks about shifting in this direction will think twice.»

At present Labour is losing support to the SNP in Scotland, to UKIP in its English and Welsh heartlands and, in the light of Corbyn's half - hearted support for Remain, may well see the support of disappointed middle - class pro-Europeans shift towards the Liberal Democrats (who have pledged to go into any future election committed to reversing the decision to leave the European Union).

On reflection, there have been five major post-war shifts in the major parties, and the claim that Labour's challenge is on a greater scale than any of the last four strikes me as implausible hyperbole.

Whilst the economic circumstances might make it more difficult to actually implement the New Labour mantra of increased investment in public services funded by a growing economy, there's little to suggest that the terms of debate in the political centre ground have undergone a paradigm shift such as the one experienced in the post-Thatcherite era.

Turning to words present rather than absent in Miliband's rhetoric, we see signs of a shifting discussion emphasising domestic labour markets.

This issue of tax and secrecy jurisdictions also matters to republicanism for another reason: the operation of tax havens has the effect of shifting the economic burdens of civic life from capital onto labour and supporting radical inequalities in wealth without the state being able effectively to regulate these economic dimensions of equality.

Labour MP David Lammy proposes a shift to taxation of unearned wealth from taxation of income and that we adopt power - sharing and profit - sharing in companies in his 2011 book Out of the Ashes.

It seems to me that the most profound challenges were to Labour after 1983, since they had to adapt to Thatcherism following the party's own shift sharply left, and indeed a major split in the party with the SDP forming, and profound differences between the party leadership and the trade unions in Kinnock's first 2 years.

In a shift from Labour's previous support for the EU, McDonnell said he believed it had been run in the interests of big businesIn a shift from Labour's previous support for the EU, McDonnell said he believed it had been run in the interests of big businesin the interests of big business.

This disappointment was enough for him to vote against Labour at the election, yet he is now happy to join the party, despite no evidence or logical reason that there will be any shift in tone.

Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

After decades of moving to the Right, and in the context of ever more brutal austerity, it looked like Labour would respond by shifting to the Right yet again.

Combined with other popular policies, including withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, such a shift in orientation would place Labour in the best position to fight the forthcoming election campaign.

A battle against Labour shifting its policy is being waged by the Blairites and their allies in the media.

In this election under Corbyn, Labour made its most audacious attempt since 1945 to shift the centre ground of politics towards the Left.