Sentences with phrase «trade union movement»

The development of an effective and democratic world trade union movement constitutes an essential element of the convergence process.

At the same time it saw the strike as a way to take out the powerful trade union movement.

They were proudly part of a movement, a socialist trade union movement.

The private sector trade union movement is in serious decline.

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«We all know in this room that you don't have a great and growing middle class unless you have a great and growing trade union movement,» Sanders said.

Taking on two common anti-migrant tropes - «stress on public service» and «decreased wages» - Abbott identified that the real cause of these problems lay elsewhere: implementing austerity when investment was needed, and a «weakened trade union movement, and predatory employers» as the cause of decreased wages.

What the Tories had to contend with back then was the changed balance of forces in the country - the postwar settlement of full employment in a mixed - managed economy with a strong trade union movement.

He is a co-founder of Blue Green Canada (an environmental / trade union movement collaboration) and the Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate initiative, the first attempt in the world to create a green standard for the vertically integrated aggregate and cement industry.

Even before the oil shocks of the 1970s the terms of this boom were being called into question, as productivity waned and capitalists facing declining rates of profit sought new ways to outflank mass trade union movements.

There is a real material reason for their existence — the lack of a combatative trade union movement and no Political Party that really addresses peoples needs, I hope we now move into a situation like a general strike because that is what would prove IN PRACTICE to those mainly young kids doing those actions that the real power lies with workers and collectivity, if this doesn't happen, if TUC or whatever retreats this behaviour born of impotence and frustration will increase.

Rather, Blue Labour is a restoration of the distinctly Scottish labour and trade union movement which grew out of the mutual improvement societies.

(This reflected a wider interest in such ideas at the time in Western Europe, an interest which arguably found its most radical expression in the famous «Meidner plan» developed by the economist Rudolf Meidner at the request of the Swedish trade union movement.)

However, we must commit to continuing to work with the wider trade union movement across the UK to secure the best interests of teachers.

«I stood for the Labour leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the party were fully represented.

Gordon Brown was plunged into a fresh crisis today as the leader of Britain's trade union movement accused him of lacking vision.

Her talent, experience and commitment to the Labour and trade union movement makes me confident she will play a crucial role in building on last year's inspiring general election advance and taking our party forward to victory.

Given the above, it is hard to see how the emergence of increased competition, division and fragmentation within the teacher trade union movement is going to help teachers (and school leaders) reclaim the initiative in relation to the education policy agenda.

Many were socialists, and a number of trade union movements were tightly linked to the rising socialist parties; this was particularly true in Germany and Austria.

I think it's a great idea to try to build a strong trade union movement,» said Sanders.

In addition to Yussuff, Corbett, and McGowan, the task force includes five other members from the trade union movement, municipal councillor Rick Smith from Leduc, Alberta, former EcoTrust Canada president Brenda Kuecks, former SaskPower president John T. Wright, and sustainable development specialist Anna Redden, director of the Acadia Tidal Energy Institute.

five other members from the trade union movement, municipal councillor Rick Smith from Leduc, Alberta, former EcoTrust Canada president Brenda Kuecks, former SaskPower president John T. Wright, and sustainable development specialist Anna Redden, director of the Acadia Tidal Energy Institute.

Commenting on Mr. Greenspan's remarks, David Hale of Kemper / Zurich International pointed out that as a result of Europe's more «rigid» (that is, unionized) labor markets, «If France or Germany had enjoyed America's success in reducing unemployment, their trade union movements would be pushing up wages aggressively and setting the stage for a monetary tightening to slow down the economy's growth rate.»

It is a trade union movement because it tries to intervene at the national level on governmental policies.

One of the characteristics was that these associations were created - and that is perhaps one of the originalities of France - independently of the trade union movement.

Our unitary practices, beyond the unemployment movements, extend to the trade union movement and to other movements.

Beyond the trade union movement, the social movement is also what we call it in France a growing movement which is often based on more specific demands of the type such as fighting for «right to housing» or supporting the demands of those without official papers.

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

«Today will be remembered as the day when the trade union movement renewed and strengthened its compact with the British people and clearly stated it was fighting back on behalf of families and communities struggling with soaring household bills and record levels of unemployment,» he said.

The first wave of the trade union movement may have been killed off by Thatcher and Scargill, but syas Dr Ian Gibson MP, there is once again a place for Trade Unionism in the heart of politics.

So those people are more likely to be drawn from the third sector or the trade union movement, but they are there.»

In 1987 Thatcher proclaimed «there is no such thing as society», 22 years later we have a community organiser, supported by the trade union movement, in the most powerful job in the world, President of the United States of America.

The trade union movement was neutered and remains so today with the occasional outbreak of strike action.

Beckett and Hencke conclude the strike was a modern civil war in which both Thatcher and Scargill were guilty of war crimes; the authors see no future for the trade union movement.

New Labour's repudiation of the trade union movement was very much like its repudiation of Clause IV.

Of course there were political organisations operating with the trade union movement.

Another concern is the dynamics within the trade union movement itself.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said November 30th 2011 would become known as the day when the trade union movement re-established itself as a major force fighting to protect economic and social advances since the Second World War.

The Labour party emerged from the trade union movement.

Ronnie Draper — General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union made the comments as union activists urged mobilisation against UKIP, to expose their «racist policies» and that electing them was an «an attack on the fundamental basic principles of the trade union movement and all working class people.»

He added: «The trade union movement lost its way in the late 1970s when it opposed the minimum wage and supported the closed shop.

In the UK, the Labour Party started off as a branch of the Trade Union movement at the end of the 19th century.

«TWU 100 joined the Working Families Party (WFP) believing that we would collectively advance policies to help working people and the trade union movement,» said TWU President John Samuelsen.

Though, in recent decades, Labour has desperately sought the approval of wealthy business owners in an attempt to drop its «anti-enterprise» image, the party is somewhat protected from these financial pressures by its links with the trade union movement.

Appalled by the long hours, low wages and poor diet of her fellow workers, she joined the trade union movement, becoming a vigorous campaigner for adult suffrage.

She said on her appointment that she wants to build «a mass movement, a social movement as well as a trade union movement and, particularly for young people, I think we have to offer a home».

Social justice and workers» rights are enormously important to me, and my professional life is spent working with the trade union movement to support working people and their unions.