Sentences with phrase «trade union reform»

Raab argued for, in The Future of Conservatism: Values Revisited, a further round of trade union reform arguing that «Luddite union leaders» block vital reforms needed to boost UK economic competitiveness.

Former Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has used the occasion to attack his government for «watering down» their agenda on issues from trade union reform to parliamentary sovereignty.

And even the remaining super unions are bound by ever - tighter legislation as a result of successive trade union reforms — not least the undemocratic Trade Union Bill currently going through Parliament.

Labour's shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has described the government's trade union reform plans as» the latest in a long line of attempts to stifle reasonable democratic scrutiny, protest and challenge».

They feel that everybody is going to the left and this is an opportunity to make a point to the awful Tory government that they don't accept trade union reform.»

But two rows behind Callaghan, elegant as always, is the redoubtable Barbara Castle, champion of the new child benefit — it was then only payable to women, not men — and recently sacked as social security secretary by Sunny Jim, an old enemy from their battle over trade union reform.

Mr Corbyn yesterday pledged to reverse the Tories» trade union reforms with a «workers» rights» law and set up a Ministry of Labour to fight on the side of employees.

They are prepared to accept the benefits of trade union reform and the merits of privatisation but they sincerely believe in a significant and generous welfare state,» he said.

That was the first time I'd seen him since a Q&A with Labour Party members, when I quizzed him on his trade union reforms in a blisteringly hot community centre during the July heatwave.

The Trade Union Reform Campaign (TURC) is a vehicle for discredited Tories to pursue an ultra-right wing agenda, but it is the true face of the Tory party, warns Unite.

Miliband, by contrast, is getting the hang of this - ranging from the yelping shouting of his conclusion to the sotto voce whispering in which he delivered his trade union reform bit.

Those are the words of Conservative MP Aidan Burley, co-founder of the Trade Union Reform Campaign, during a Westminster Hall debate on trade union funding yesterday.

The wider aims of the Trade Union Reform Campaign should be introduced in full:

It is testament to the campaigning of the broader conservative movement in the form of the TaxPayers» Alliance, the Trade Union Reform Campaign, ConservativeHome, Guido Fawkes and many backbench MPs that this issue has been fully exposed and forced onto the agenda.

David Cameron personally welcomed the launch of the Trade Union Reform Campaign by myself and over a dozen MPs to campaign on this matter.

Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall says the government's trade union reforms are «a blatant political attack from the Tories in an attempt to try and destroy our movement».

He told the party conference that the Cabinet would have featured disgraced ex-Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne - elevated to «Lord Huhne of Wormwood Scrubs» - championing prisoner voting rights and «Baron» Len McCluskey, with the Unite leader abolishing Margaret Thatcher's trade union reforms.