Sentences with phrase «trade union members»

But this is what could be happening to millions of trade union members each year as trade union membership forms fail to notify members of the political levy added to their membership fees.

We are trades union members who know a better business environment means more work.

Our hard work and expertise brings tens of thousands of personal injury and employment rights cases to a successful conclusion for trade union members and their families every year.

While advancements have been made, there are still far too many trade union members living with life - changing injuries because of road accidents.

She continues to take up many of the issues that affect trade union members, like poverty and low pay.

What's more, trade union members even get to have a say over where there money is spent.

The office also specialises in employment rights on behalf of trade union members.

So the idea that Labour would be left without any income if affiliated trade union members stopped contributing on the scale that the GMB figures suggest is evidently an exaggeration.

John also represented trade union members in hazard pay FLSA action involving asbestos exposures.

New joiners who are not trade union members need to be told of the importance of trade unions and directed to appropriate unions.

The Tories have been criticising Ed Miliband because of the importance of trade union support to his victory, as if there was something wrong with the votes of 211,234 individual trade union members who support the party.

«In the 2010 leadership election, even though the bar to voting was incredibly low, 250,000 trade union members voted.

Paul is a skilled serious injury solicitor with more than 20 years» experience helping trade union members secure compensation after suffering a serious injury.

Finding for the applicants, the ECtHR was satisfied that although the penalties imposed were relatively light, the effect was to dissuade trade union members from legitimate participation in strikes or other trade union action.

The headline findings are that David Miliband leads on first preferences amongst party and trade union members as -LSB-...]

Thompsons is very proud to deliver bespoke packages of specialist legal services to millions of UK trade union members, to support them with free, independent advice and representation on issues which matter most to working people.

For more than 90 years, Thompsons Solicitors has helped the families of thousands of trade union members secure personal injury compensation in a wide range of claims involving road traffic accidents, medical negligence, serious injuries, and accidents in public places.

Jon Ashworth, the shadow cabinet minister, accused the Tories of seeking to rig the political system with planned cuts to «Short money» and new rules to discourage donations by trade union members.

And, even if the plans went through without such withdrawals, many argued that Labour would still face financial ruin if trade union members had to make a positive individual decision to support Labour rather than «contracting out» of the collective decision as is the case presently (for details of the existing relationship and the proposals, see my last blog).

With more than 23 years» legal experience, Balbir is proud to represent trade union members in a range of employment rights claims.

I am ready to engage with the Labour Party to find a way to re-engage hundreds of thousands of trade union members with the party their forefathers and foremothers created.

Instead Miliband will insist the switch to an opt - in system, in which trade union members actively choose to affiliate with Labour, is needed because it could restore Labour's status as a mass membership party of the people.

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Thompsons Solicitors has helped hundreds of thousands of trade union members receive 100 per cent compensation after suffering a serious injury — from burns and spinal injuries to fatalities.

Now MPs say they have received «clear proof» from Unite of blacklisting targeting trade union members working on the Crossrail contract.

In the survey of 1,221 Unite trade union members, 63 % of respondents said he was «doing badly» as leader compared to 33 % who said he was «doing well».

House of Lords committee likely to call for halt to proposed changes to way trade union members contribute to party funds

My judgment, based upon my own experience as a GMB activist, is that few trade union members will choose to opt in under the terms envisaged by the Collins proposals, and that party funding from the trade unions will therefore be reduced to perhaps 10 % of its current levels.

Stevie Deans knows all about that, having faced police interviews (that led to his sacking) at the behest of Miliband and all for the «crime» of recruiting working class trade union members to his CLP.

15th September 2015, LSE British Politics and Policy blog: Trade union members did not shape the Labour leadership result as much as in past elections

As well as encouraging trade unionists to join the Party, we need to get Labour Party members to become trade union members.

Section 4 of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, introduced after the General Strike, forced trade union members to «contract in'to any political levy raised by the unions.

As of September 2017 it was recorded that 37,000 Northern Irish trade union members have opted - in to pay the political levy their trade union offers which largely goes to the Labour Party.

Trade union members therefore have no option but to take strike action.

The Party is right to disagree with the ideologically driven wreckers who lead the major unions, but that shouldn't stop them reaching out to ordinary trade union members, many of whom are sympathetic to conservatism.

The working class voice can not be expressed within the Party by individual trade union members spread thinly across all the local CLPs.

But the best way this could be done would be formally to enfranchise trade union members who pay the political levy in their union.

I have a message to the millions of Trade Union members currently affiliated to the Labour Party: with this change I invite you to be at the centre of what this Party does, day in day out, at local level.

And in this generation, to build the new politics, we need to do more, not less, to make individual Trade Union members part of our Party.

In Belgium thousands of trade union members demonstrate in Liege, while in Asia protest erupts in India, Nepal, Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia.

Lancman, meanwhile, is expected to do well among Jewish voters in the district, while Crowley has strong support among reliable police, fire and construction trade union members.

«The fact that the party has suspended a high profile trade union member is bound to have a «chilling effect» on other members who may support one candidate or the other in the leadership contest and who may express critical political opinion or comments concerning one or both of the two leadership candidates.

Crucially this is a power that can be carefully targeted on marginals, where trade union members may make a difference in constituencies where there have been large local government redundancies or dissatisfaction with the health service.

The national committee of the Labour Party's young wing, Young Labour, vowed on Wednesday night «to defend the right of trade union members through their affiliated trade union to take part in the selection of candidates at every level of the party».

Is this the same Conservative Party that brought in an entire legislative framework to ensure regular ballots of trade union members over the operation of their political funds and who passed the Trade Union and Labour Relations Consolidation Act 1992 preventing the transfer of monies from union general funds into political funds?

Since some leading trade union members of the NEC are known to favour circulating ballot papers to all levy papers — as was the previous practice — with votes being counted provided that levy - payers tick the box to opt into affiliated supporter status, the union influence may in fact not change so much from the process that selected Ken Livingstone.

The Tories should also do more to empower trade union members to decide how their political levy is used.

There are 2.7 m trade union members.