Sentences with phrase «trade union members voted»

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Conservative MP Fiona Bruce spoke out as members of the trade union prepare to vote on the proposal during the BMA's annual conference in Bournemouth.

The previous structure gave votes to three blocks — MPs, trade unions and other affiliated organisations, and party members.

This has now been changed to one - member - one - vote, although affiliated trade union members can sign up to become affiliated members and get a vote that way.

As well as MPs and members, he had over 50 % of trade union vote in a 3 - way contest.

She is a popular with the members, has impeccable trade union credentials, is an energetic, brave, political street fighter and a lot of people will jump at the chance to vote for a woman.

It split votes between MPs (30 %), party members (30 %) and trade unions and socialist societies (40 %).

As I've pointed out before, the party's tripartite electoral college (divided between MPs / MEPs, party members, and affiliated trade unions and socialist societies) means that some votes are worth significantly more than others.

• Require a clear description of the trade dispute and the planned industrial action on the ballot paper, so that all union members are clear what they are voting for.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

Most members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party would NOT vote Labour if a general election were held this week, according to... (Comments: 49)

• I am a trade union member, and as my trade union is affiliated to the Labour party, I was told I would have a vote in the leadership election.

He wants to stop trade unions whose members have voted to have a political fund and which have decided to use part of that fund to affiliate to the party from doing so.

Trade union halves official number of members affiliated to the party in wake of Ed Miliband's voting reforms

It is easy for McClusky and his associates to assume that all trade unionists vote Labour, and that indeed all UNITE members approve of their union subscriptions going to the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn on collision course with trade unions over Trident Jeremy Corbyn: Labour members could vote on Trident renewal

Under the new rules, party members, registered supporters and registered trade unions all have one vote.

Delegates voted to end the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introduce a «one member, one vote» system in leadership elections.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

He said: «We have seen Tory backbenchers last week defying the prime minister to vote against the Queen's Speech; former Tory chancellors openly calling for Britain to leave the European Union; serving Cabinet ministers joining the chorus at the weekend, saying they would vote for Britain to leave the EU now; and the embarrassing spectacle and truly ludicrous sight of a British prime minister in Washington negotiating an EU - US trade deal, while back home members of his own Cabinet say they would vote to exclude Britain from its benefits.»

We know, from party sources, how Labour's selectorate divides between full party members and those who have signed up, either via their trade union or by paying # 3, to vote in the leadership election.

On our figures, full Labour party members (including those paying the reduce student and unwaged rate) show Burnham defeating Corbyn by 50.5 - 49.5 % - a statistical dead heat; however, among those who have the vote in the current contest because they have paid a # 3 registration fee or signed up as a member of an affiliated trade union, Corbyn is well ahead, with 57 % of first preferences and a 69 - 31 % lead in the final round.

68 % of Labour members opose renewal of Trident, 64 % think trade unions should have more influence, 58 % say they wouldn't vote for any Labour leader if they had supported airstrikes against Syria.

The reality is that non-party members have always been able to vote - the affiliated societies section can include non-members, and the trade unions section already includes plenty of non-Labour members.

The election took place using Alternative Vote in an electoral college, with a third of the votes allocated to MPs and MEPs, a third to individual members of the Labour Party, and a third to individual members of affiliated organisations, mainly trade unions.

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 Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

The big trade unions have mostly endorsed Ed Miliband, and once they contact their members urging them to back Ed it may well shift the trade union vote in his favour.

The new leader is elected by an electoral college where the votes of MPs and MEPs count for a third of the total, the votes of Labour Party members count for a third and votes of trade unions and other affiliate organisations» members count for a third.

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

Dennis Skinner spoke to 80,000 people at the Durham Miners Gala, urging a vote against separation and asking the trade unions to get involved, and members from all parts of the country were encouraged to join in.

It is important not because of the extent to which Unite wields direct influence in this election: trade union members may comprise less than a third of those eligible to vote following the Collins changes and, with a lower turnout, perhaps 15 % or less of those who actually do so.

The Labour leader's comments came as he hosted a special conference in London where delegates will vote on ending the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introducing «one member, one vote» in leadership elections.

Obviously I used my MPs vote — the one that was worth hundreds of times that of the votes of ordinary party members and trade union levy payers.

How democratic is a system where one person, who isn't necessarily a member of the Labour party, has a number of votes, depending on how many trade unions or socialist societies they are members of?

As one party figure put it: «If just one in 10 trade unionists becomes an associate member, the unions will effectively control a majority of votes in a Labour leadership election.»

Currently - under Labour's electoral college system - MPs and MEPs get a third of the votes to select a new leader, trade unions get a third and party members another third.

Former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn said a contest was needed to give party members and the trade unions a chance to vote when Mr Blair finally steps down.

At the moment, some Labour members can have more than one vote - if they are an MP, for example, they might also have a vote as a trade union member, party member and member of an «affiliated society» such as the Fabian Society.

In 2014, Labour changed the rules for future contests to move to a «one member, one vote» system of party members, affiliated trade union supporters and registered supporters.

Yet, although often perceived by third countries as over-represented in the IMF, the Union's influence does not actually correspond with its Member States» cumulative voting share, unlike in the World Trade Organization (WTO) for example.