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.
Not exact matches
In January, a group of
trade unionists met
with the Electoral
Reform Society to discuss the key role that
unions play in society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic
Reform.
It must try to earn leadership through argument in open debate
with others — including
trade unions, religious groups, community organising initiatives and anti-cuts campaigners.It is encouraging to see that Labour is starting to grapple
with the need for serious economic
reform.
Rumours circulating in Westminster include the idea of Justine Greening being moved out of education,
with one source suggesting that she had sided too strongly
with the
trade unions instead of embracing Tory
reforms.
Lord Prescott has said «It is radical and courageous» for Ed Miliband to promise to
reform Labour's relationship
with trade unions.
Labour hopes that the changes, introduced as part of Miliband's
reform of the party's historic links
with the
trade unions, will provide a «soft journey» into politics for people who think it is «weird» to join a political party.
Ed Miliband will promise to make politics more «open, transparent and trusted» by
reforming Labour's relationship
with trade unions.
Today, Ed Miliband will set out a series of bold
reforms to Labour's relationship
with its affiliated
trade unions, in a bid to draw a line under the disastrous fallout from the botched Falkirk selection process.
Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working
with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated
with our movements (
Trade unions, the Co-op, retired
union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare
reform.
In March 2012 we set out our final proposed agreements on pension
reform following more than a year of intensive discussions
with trade unions.
And that season of discontents: that was nothing to do, we are supposed to suppose,
with his own Faustian pact
with the
trade unions in destroying In Place of Strife, Barbara Castle's
reforming White Paper, nearly a decade before.
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.
John Bangs, chair of the OECD's
trade union advisory committee working group on education said: «One of the contradictions of some democratic governments, particularly England, is that they feel they have to make their mark
with reforms.
Chip and his team negotiated and implemented bilateral logging agreements
with China and Indonesia, coordinated the Climate and Environment Working Group under the U.S. - Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, led
trade - related efforts on forests
with Peru, the Asia - Pacific region, and the European
Union, and played a leading role in developing the U.S. relationship
with Burma on forest policy since that country began its political and economic
reform process in 2011.
With the
Trade Union Bill making radical changes to the UK's strike laws, we're helping employers understand how these
reforms shift the legal and tactical dynamics around industrial action and the wider impact on their industrial relations strategies.