Sentences with phrase «trade union group»

The culture, media and sport committee has flown to Los Angeles to participate in the meeting, which he has succeeded in gaining access to through a US trade union group.

We need to hold trade union group MPs to greater account and scrutiny.

Both campaigns have been supported and co-ordinated by a new trade union group called the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB).

However, CNS Cartel ALFA, a trade union group, puts the number at around 1,700 jobs, a significant difference, and predicted that after nine years employment would fall to just over 300.

Main trade unions groups have agreed to hold large rallies at government - designated spots in Istanbul and Ankara but small groups were expected to try to reach Taksim.

Much of the audience at the hearing wore the orange t - shirts of UP4NYC, a building trades union group formed to oppose Mr. de Blasio's proposal to reform 421a to expand the requirements for affordable housing, but not mandate prevailing wages for construction workers.

Though he has differed with public - sector labor unions, Cuomo has worked closely with a variety of construction and trade union groups over the years, receiving an award from two labor unions for his efforts this past summer.

Not exact matches

At a bitcoin breakfast event in Manhattan in April, a group of them traded complaints («They ended up with a pound of soup where they threw in all the different bank rules and AML [anti-money laundering] rules... they ended up with something very salty,» said Tim Byun of BitPay) and hyperbolic predictions (if BitLicense is too stringent, New York City will «lose the next Wall Street» to Silicon Valley, Estonia, or North Carolina, said Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures).

Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and labor groups: The report cites the «majority» of members preferring to focus on issues outside trade deficits in favor of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the labor union representatives dissent in favor of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.

In February, Sarkozy was meeting with trade unions and business groups to discuss the «2010 social calendar.»

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.»

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One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right - to - work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

Matthew Parks, deputy parliamentary co-ordinator of the Congress of South African Trade Unions — the largest of such groups — described the R20 minimum wage as a «huge victory» given that businesses had originally pushed for R11.

But, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), the group behind the strike, described it as a «poverty wage on which no - one should be expected to live» in a press release Sunday.

Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a trade group of business and the United Steelworkers union, announced he was stepping down.

At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.

Their appearance is a clear sign of Kazakhstani discontent with the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russia - led trade group that was supposed to promote mutual growth but which critics say has so far only inflicted economic pain on Astana.

Chen Weiguang, head of the Guangzhou city federation of trade unions, said Thursday the agency will meet company executives or send working groups to push hard for collective salary negotiation if any Fortune 500 company failed to comply before the deadline.

So frustrating were the Warsaw talks that the International Trade Union Confederation and a number of other groups marched out.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSBTrade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSBtrade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

I hope that they, as a group, would choose to raise their standards in this respect rather than to become a trade union of experts in medicine, narrowly conceived.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

A multi-stakeholder group, the ICI was established in 2002 under the protocol and represents a partnership among NGOs, trade unions, cocoa processors, such as US firm Cargill, and major chocolate brands that include Nestle and Cadbury.

Rather than responding positively to campaigns, Nestlé uses dirty tricks — in January 2013 it was ordered to pay compensation to ATTAC Switzerland after sending spies to infiltrate the group and gather information on who was contributing to a book on Nestlé, covering its baby milk marketing, trade union busting, exploitation of water resources and other concerns.

Similarly, there are other groups raising concerns about Nestlé trade union busting activities, impact on water supplies and spying on campaign groups.

And number five, they say engage with target groups, for example trade unions, workers» rights organizations, women's groups and youth groups to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

engage with target groups, e.g. trade unions, workers rights organizations, human rights agencies, occupational health organizations, and women's and youth groups, to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

How can environmental groups, trade associations, unions and business groups push their issues above the frenzy?

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

And it's based on using volunteers, ordinary residents, Labour party members, trade union members, members of faith groups, civil society.

Decision - making in the post-war era had been cooperative and shared with trade unions and business groups.

Politicisation was everywhere for Thatcherites: the increased influence of pressure groups; extra-parliamentary forms of representation; extensive nationalisation; punitive taxation; the growth of trade union power and the sponsorship of law - breaking.

In January, a group of trade unionists met with the Electoral Reform Society to discuss the key role that unions play in society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic Reform.

Creating building societies, cooperatives, sports societies, libraries, education groups and trade unions.

It must try to earn leadership through argument in open debate with others — including trade unions, religious groups, community organising initiatives and anti-cuts campaigners.It is encouraging to see that Labour is starting to grapple with the need for serious economic reform.

It was more about the trade unions believing they wanted Parliamentary representation - including to challenge court decisions - and the emerging ethical Socialist strands around the Fabian Society and other groups.

It remains to be seen how much Ms. Crowley's union backing helps her, since groups like the firefighters and the building trades are less experienced with carrying petitions in order to get on the ballot.

Bringing together politicians, with businesses, trade unions, councils, and voluntary groups to insist that the living wage is an idea whose time has come.

There are forces within the trade union movement and the Labour Party that want to sever the link — elements of the right within the Party and groups on the left within the unions.

Trade groups and unions representing workers primarily involved in construction were also relatively balanced.

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

Notable donors: Voice of Teachers for Education Committee, a group associated with education union NYSUT; Coalition for Public Charter Schools, a pro-charter school political action committee; Neighborhood Preservation PAC, a fund representing building owners around the state; New York State ALF - CIO, a state trade union; Angela Battaglia, Vito Lopez's longtime girlfriend; Councilman Stephen Levin.

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

The Labour party will be led down a blind alley if trade unions succeed in banning Progress, a pressure group associated with Tony Blair, the former business secretary Lord Mandelson warned on Sunday.

«The Government's Trade Union Bill, if enacted, will place supply teachers and other agency workers in an invidious situation and is a clear attempt to set one group of workers against another.

A Private Members» Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Nick Hurd MP, it came about after an unprecedented five year campaign supported by dozens of voluntary organisations, trade unions and other representative groups, parish and town councils and tens of thousands of individuals.

MPs and unions fight to protect right to expel extremists Leading UK trade unions and MPs are pressing the Government to show leadership and act to protect unions from attack by extreme right - wing groups.