Sentences with phrase «trade union political»

The proposed changes to trade union political funds won't simply have an impact on Labour Party funding.

There is simply no comparison with the strict regime imposed on trade union political donations and the far more lax arrangements that are in place for the corporate donors and tax exiles who bankroll the Tory Party.

To match up to controls on trade union political funding, these additional burdens on companies would have to include: -

The Party has lost most of its bigger private donors and depleted trade union political funds will not be capable of again bridging this gap.

Labour is facing a funding problems because of the changes to trade union political levy rules in the trade union bill which are expected cost the party a whopping # 6m a year.

The Liberal Democrats are hostile to trade union funding of the Labour party and favour restricting it by placing a cap on trade union political donations.

While the measures on «contracting - in» are not directly related to party funds — they are principally about participation in trade union political funds — it is only Labour's finances that will be affected.

The outcome was a series of proposals which significantly challenged the government's original intentions, whilst recognising that the government had a democratic mandate to introduce some form of «contracting - in» for trade union political funds.

Not exact matches

At a time when the U.K. is negotiating its future trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28 - country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs uUnion (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28 - country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs unionunion.

Instead, the political regime for controlling trade in the industry has been a quota system on imports, maintained by such western countries as Canada, the United States and European Union members.

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The Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, or CETA as it's known in political circles, is a landmark free trade deal between Canada and the European UTrade Agreement, or CETA as it's known in political circles, is a landmark free trade deal between Canada and the European Utrade deal between Canada and the European Union.

The delayed signing of CETA, Canada's trade agreement with the European Union, should be seen as a triumph of bipartisanship in a world full of small - minded political sniping and nastiness.

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The MST is both a trade union and a political and popular movement.

«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.

This means that the church needs to be present in trade unions, political parties, and every other secular institution to promote justice and compassion.18 In this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialogue.

Collectively they are the core of the tangled network of business, religious, trade union, military, and political organizations and relations which together constitute the power structure in the world.

Crowds began gathering on the Maidan, Kyiv's Independence Square, in late November 2013 after President Viktor Yanukovych retreated from signing an agreement with the European Union that would have deepened trade relations and opened the way for greater political and military cooperation.

We need a family and an ordered society requires a political society — but we don't need to be a member of a golf club or trade union or to read a particular newspaper.

As Kuyper's heirs immigrated to North America, they brought over his penchant for establishing and maintaining Christian institutions of all sorts, including a network of Christian day schools, a Christian trade union, more than one political organization, and a network of institutions of higher education.

That pilgrimage was the moral, spiritual, and psychological impetus behind the formation, in the summer of 1980, of Solidarity, the Polish independent trade union that was also a political opposition with ten million members.

FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK's political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos.

We initially feared that the transparency of lobbying, non-party campaigning and trade union administration bill would be a crude party political attack on unions.

A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop the Share Better campaign — a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

It's about trade union fixing of political appointments to this House, that's what it's about,» he responds.

The court - validated Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Kolawole Olaiya, urged the EFCC to probe the whereabouts of the N9.6 billion bailout money released for the payment of workers, pensioners and past political office holders.

Many of the «third parties» being clamped down on in the bill are trade unions, who will each be restricted to spending no more than # 390,000 on political campaigning.

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

After a political career spanning more than 40 years, including a trade union background, the four - term MP is standing down to spend more time with his wife.

This is a post that pits his formidable political skills against the Brexit trio of foreign secretary Boris Johnson, international trade secretary Liam Fox and David Davis, the secretary of state for exiting the European Union.

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.

The Thatcher administrations indeed aimed to undermine the institutions on which the political strength of the Labour movement rested (i.e. big - city local authorities, council estates, monopoly nationalised industries, trade unions and local government authorities).

This meeting on 11 November succeeded in coalescing representatives of major lone parent and child poverty organisations — despite some reluctance on the part of one of the major charities because of political sympathies with Blair by leading individuals — national trade unions, women's officers, local government anti-poverty organisations and MPs.

He argued that the prime minister's veto should lead to the establishment of a new relationship with Europe «based upon free trade, competitiveness and growth, moving away from political union and deadweight regulation».

It is also at this end of the spectrum that the political actor in achieving republican change is not primarily a republican president or political party but trade unions and social movements.

«This publicity stunt by Plaid Cymru is a crude attempt to weaken our strong and historic link with the Labour Party and to deprive trade unions of a legitimate political role.

The result was quite predictable — around a quarter fewer trade unionists opted in to the political levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was mitigated in part by unions raising the affiliation fee for those who continued to pay into the political fund.

However, faced with opposition from the trade unions, the Liberal government passed The Trade Union Act in 1913, allowing unions to have a political fund as long as members were able to opttrade unions, the Liberal government passed The Trade Union Act in 1913, allowing unions to have a political fund as long as members were able to optTrade Union Act in 1913, allowing unions to have a political fund as long as members were able to opt out.

This established that for trade unions to engage in political activity, they must create a separate political fund.

This resulted in the outlawing of the use of trade union funds for political purposes.

Thatcher attempted to sever the link with the 1984 Trade Union Act, forcing unions to ballot all members about whether to continue to keep a political fund.

The first is affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.

The points of greatest pressure will be first, those which impact onto the membership of the trade unions, secondly, those with the largest social forces behind them and thirdly, those where the trade union bureaucracy can not avoid the political contradictions with Blair.

A considerable number of trade union members already exercise the right to contract - out of the political fund, so the case for changing the procedure in isolation and outside of a broader examination of party funding is not especially strong.

In July 2015, a Trade Union Bill was presented, which included a clause requiring trade unions with a political fund to operate a «contracting - in» system rather than a «contracting - out» syTrade Union Bill was presented, which included a clause requiring trade unions with a political fund to operate a «contracting - in» system rather than a «contracting - out» sytrade unions with a political fund to operate a «contracting - in» system rather than a «contracting - out» system.

Blair and Mandelson know that their political project — to eliminate trade union and rank and file influence from the Labour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movement.

At present a political alliance of the party leadership and right wing trade union bureaucracy is spending unprecedented sums of money to try to take control of this NEC section.

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.

Is there a chance that proper political pluralism in Trade Unions can come out of this?