Sentences with phrase «trade union officials»

The inflation expectations of trade union officials are around 1/2 a percentage point higher than those of financial market economists in both years.

Asked again by Miliband to agree to Labour's new motion, he instead repeated his earlier objection that they would allow MPs to be paid as trade union officials.

In contrast, trade union officials surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) have revised down their forecasts for inflation by around 1/2 of a percentage point over the next year and now expect inflation of around 3 per cent over the next two years.

Prior to selection as an MP, he was a full - time trade union official with the AEEU from 1988 then Amicus Union.

«Well let's agree now to rule out any MP being a paid trade union official, a paid director, or a paid consultant,» replied Miliband.

Despite his vocal support for the union during an unprecedented speech at its annual conference in March, the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn did not visit teachers on picket lines today, and Angela Rayner, the new shadow education secretary and a former trade union official, stopped short of backing the strike.

A former GMB trade union official, McNicol's task is complicated by the fact that he beat Ed Miliband's favoured candidate, Chris Lennie, to the role.

Thomas Griffiths (1867 — 1955) was a Welsh trade union official and Labour Party politician, he was a Member of Parliament for Pontypool from 1918 to 1935.

Writing for the Blairite Progress magazine in 2013, Johnson described trade union officials as «fat, white, finger - jabbing blokes on rostrums shouting and screaming» [38] and said in 2014 that «A perception that Labour is in the pocket of the unions is damaging to the party... The precious link between Labour and the unions becomes a liability rather than an advantage when it is allowed to look like a transaction.»

She has worked with the Derry Justice for Victims of Asbestos Group and local trade union officials to raise awareness of health and safety rights at work.

A survey of trade union officials, conducted by ACIRRT (Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training) following release of the June quarter CPI, gave a median inflation forecast of 2 per cent over the year to June 1999, rising to 3 per cent over the year to June 2000 (Table 8).

Trade union officials surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) still expect inflation to be 3.0 per cent over the year to mid 2004.

Trade unions have received at least # 113 million from the state through government - funded full time trade union officials, according to research by the Tax Payers Alliance (TPA).

«The difficulty with his specific proposal is that it would allow somebody to be a paid trade union official, but it wouldn't allow someone to run a family business or a family shop.»

Trade union officials, as surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT), have revised up their forecasts of inflation for the year to June 2001 in recent quarters, reflecting the incorporation of the effect of the GST on prices by more respondents.

Head of political polling at Ipsos MORI, Gideon Skinner said: «Groups such as professors, scientists, the police, trade union officials and civil servants have become more trusted, but the clergy are the most notable losers.

Trade union official and co-founder of UK Black Pride Phyll Opoku - Gyimah has emerged as the front runner.

If you are a Trade Union Official, elected by members and paid to represent their rights, hopes and aspirations, you are described by both the media and politicians as a tyrant, a baron or a member of the «awkward squad».

In a sign of increased coordination among opponents of government cuts, student leaders have written to trade union officials to ask for their support.

Trade Union Officials are elected democratically and Union policies are determined by members via Annual Conferences and Congresses, after heavy and often heated debate.

He then went on to study Politics and History at Swansea University after which he returned to the Valuation Agency and then full time as a trades union official for the Public and Commercial Services Union, a role he held until until 2004.

When I put it to one trade union official that their complaints were somewhat undermined by the fact Miliband was their choice, his response was: «And what were we supposed to do?

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Yet often the same councils are continuing to use Council Taxpayers money to fund the salaries of trade union officials.

Before being elected to Parliament he worked as a bookmaker, in a bank and as a trade union official.

Trade union officials have met with the prime minister just as the leader of Unite fights a war of words with Ed Miliband.

Trade union officials are under fire from a Conservative MP who has unveiled nearly # 40,000 of expenses, paid by the taxpayer, spent on senior «union barons».

Given that Miliband had just seconds ago told him that he wants to ban MPs from being trade union officials, this seemed a strange objection, but it was apparently the only objection the prime minister had prepared.

However it was the question of trade union officials that really concerned him.

Fellow members I've had the pleasure of playing with include ex-service personnel, fishermen, millionaires, students, social workers, trade union officials and my regular playing partner Stuart, who claims I owe him a fortune for all the lessons he's given me.

More than 20 MPs were absent — mainly Clynes supporters, new to Parliament, who were trade union officials and who had yet to disentangle themselves from their union commitments.

With his Glaswegian brogue and background as a sheet metal worker and trade union official, he was quickly dubbed «Gorbals Mick» by some Tories and members of the press.

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Advising on numerous potentially sensitive dismissals, including senior board executives; head teachers; trade union officials; repeat tribunal claimants;