Sentences with phrase «to organise labour»

The day is set aside by organised labour to celebrate workers as well highlight their challenges.

Most of these attacks were based either on ignorance of the role that unions play, or outright hostility to the position of organised labour in the UK.

The Founder of the Centre for Freedom and Accuracy, Andrew Awuni has chastised the representatives of Organised Labour on the Social Security and National Insurance Trust governing board, saying they must be called to answer questions regarding some decisions that led to the loss of millions of dollars.

In its bid to adequately effect palliatives measures following the hike of pump price of petrol to N145 per litre, the Federal Government, yesterday, released names of its members of the technical committee to work with organised labour on the agreement it reached with the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC on the development.

He called on the Government to engage organised labour on all issues affecting the working population adding that,» we believe we can achieve a lot together through social dialogue».

A century on from the UK's only ever general strike, the major federation for organised labour in Britain must learn to be more effective.

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

«Therefore, be prepared for worst because in the state broadcast to mark 57th independence anniversary, government has not seen any reason to open dialogue with organised labour over the catalogue of workers» demands that led to he ongoing strike action.

Grammar schools have been denied to the poor, trade unions have abandoned the low paid (the living wage campaign has been led by civil society, not organised labour), and successful regional businesses employing people at scale have largely vanished.

Organised Labour held a nationwide demonstration on Wednesday, January 20th to get the government to reduce increases, across the board, to 50 %.

And the same was true of David Milliband's stance which Cruddas got behind - while the rhetoric was in Cruddas territory and so were the move towards community organising (see the Keir Hardie lecture) the actual policies were fairly indistinguishable from Blair - era New Labour and in some instances the Government, not to mention his attitude towards organised labour (see the Labour leadership Question Time) and the war.

Organised Labour wants government to scrap recent levies on petroleum products and reduce percentage increases in water and electricity prices.

«But we certainly will not outright reject their [Organised Labour] claims and in respect of the PURC, making a clear distinction between lifeline consumers and those at the top end we should be able to make some adjustments,» said Haruna Iddrisu.

Usdaw's Joanne Cairns filling an extra place on what is now an enlarged and potentially unwieldly 39 - strong body, signals organised labour's fierce determination to fight its corner.

Ambode however urged organised labour to continue to be focused on realistic and reasonable goals while rightly insisting on the due and just entitlements of their members, calling for all hands to be on deck to continue to explore innovative means to address the economic challenges in the country for the good of all Nigerian workers.

This first document from 1977 was written by Nicholas Ridley and explains how they would denationalise the state, subvert the Unions, use the security services of the state against organised Labour, and build up stocks of coal to take on the miners.

«Labour MPs are to be applauded for voting down this spurious bill which was based on a blind loathing of organised labour rather than common sense.

In that same year [2014], Organised Labour made similar calls for the payment of their outstanding pension funds.

In a post-industrial and neoliberal era, questions of identity are posing acute problems for political parties with ties to organised labour all over the world.

Government and Organised Labour reached a deal on Wednesday for a reduction in electricity tariffs following recent hikes.

Initially, the state's organised labour regarded it as politically motivated because it was this administration that renovated the secretariat.

Whilst applauding Organised Labour heartily for the calm industrial climate Ghana has enjoyed over the last 16 months, President Akufo - Addo also recounted one of the issues that took centre stage last year, the ECG Concession, and the fear of layoffs of Ghanaian workers.

The Liberals see organised labour and trade unions as just another vested interest, a force of conservatism, and a constraint upon liberty.

These in turn inform how the iconography of organised labour emerged within a society.

Organised labour in Ogun on Wednesday suspended its two - week strike, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

Speaking in Lokoja while addressing a rally held by Organised Labour to mark this year's May Day celebration, Bello explained that the N20 billion was the first tranche of the N50 billion applied for to clear salary arrears of the state and local government workers.

These changes bring Labour very close to being an individual membership party (as most of its rival parties already are, at least for leadership election purposes) while preserving in a much changed form the historic relationship with organised labour that Mr Miliband rightly cherishes.

Meanwhile, Secretary to State government, Gabriel Ajah, in denying the claim, disclosed that when the bailout fund was received, a dedicated bank account was opened for the funds and a committee, comprising leaders of Organised Labour, representatives of the state government and pensioners was setup to oversee the disbursement.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has thrown its weight behind Nigeria's organised labour over planned increment of prices of petroleum products, accusing...

President Mahama in his May Day address to organised labour on Sunday in Wa in the Upper West Region commended the workers for their sacrifices, which has significantly helped in saving the refinery.

Capitalism has taken over four centuries to construct the material basis of its reproduction, in terms of creating a new way to organise labour, which goes hand in hand with technological development.

He said organised labour would also support Government to undertake an audit of all government funded projects and programs.

The Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, applauded the TUC for the massive participation and pledged Government's readiness to work with organised labour to address the numerous labour related issues.

The Regional Secretary of TUC, Samuel Kweku Doughan, expressed the willingness of organised labour to support all Government initiatives designed to create jobs.

Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, told Joy News new proposals to Organised Labour will get them to back down on further industrial action.

Heath, for Marquand, «was a whig imperialist of sorts»; he did his awkward best to practice the politics of inclusion, power - sharing was one the central themes of his statecraft and he sought to run the economy on a more explicit form of social partnership, embracing the state, organised labour and business.

On a statement credited to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, that resumed talks with the organised labour could only commence if the strike was called off, Ozo - Eson noted that only the organs of the NLC could take a decision on that.

«In proof of the maturity and responsibility of the labour unions in our State, the organised labour has consistently met with members of our administration under different fora designed to identify and address possible areas of tension and disagreement before they fester into open conflicts.

Of course, we need to trade with the world's largest and most productive manufacturer, a nation which offers cheap, well - organised labour and very good prices.

Today's pamphlet, Raising Lazarus: The future of organised labour, says that 62 per cent of workers support a collective voice in the workplace, but many potential union members are put of by the rhetoric of strife and struggle.

Ozo - Eson also clarified that the meeting has nothing to do with the peace parley between chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, led by its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the leaders of the organised labour at the Labour House on Friday.

The opt - in proposals threaten the link with trade unions; a party with no link to organised labour is no longer a labour party.

He however lauded the state government for providing social amenities for the people and also commended civil servants for supporting the organised labour.

While Sadiq Khan was not the organised Labour left's first choice in the process to select Labour's candidate, he was elected on the wave of «Corbynmania» and the left's second preference votes, receiving a strong mandate from Labour members, registered supporters and trade union supporters, beating the Blairite candidate in each section.

Wabba said that the Minister of State for Health was contradicting the decision of the FEC on whistle blowers with removal of the names of 200 workers who sympathised with the organised Labour from the payroll.

His comments come even as some organised labour groups including GHOSPA and railway workers are agitating over their placement on the single spine pay structure and poor remuneration, respectively.

The legal framework, when passed, sets in motion a process for government and organised labour to commence discussions on review of wages every five years.