Sentences with phrase «trade union rights»

He has supported us, stood on our picket lines, celebrated our successes, and campaigned alongside us for trade union rights.

«It isn't migrants that drive down wages, it's exploitative employers and the politicians who deregulate the labour market and rip up trade union rights,» he said.

Liberty, the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and Amnesty International UK yesterday published a joint statement condemning proposals in the Government's forthcoming Trade Union Bill: The government's plans to significantly restrict trade union rights — set out in the Trade Union Bill — represent a major attack on civil liberties in the UK.

As a result of accommodating to neoliberal capitalist policies throughout the Blair years — deregulation of finance, privatisation, shrinking the State in favour of unfettered markets, weakened trade union rights, and ballooning inequality — Labour lost 5 million votes since 1997.

Because last week the awful consequences of our failure to renew was made plain when the Tories rammed through savage cuts to tax credits alongside an ugly assault on trade union rights.

To open dialogue with affiliated trade unions to win support at Labour Party conferences for democratic rule changes and for pro-working-class policies on issues such as cuts, the living wage, jobs, and trade union rights.

On 15 April 2015, thousands of fast food workers will lead a mass movement of around 60,000 low waged workers striking across the United States to raise the issue of poor wages and the lack of trade union rights within their industry.

He's clearly keen to put some distance between himself and the record of the last Labour government on many issues — Iraq, equality, redistribution and tax, markets and privatisation, industrial policy, trade union rights and working hours, and civil liberties.

Reinstate full trade union rights to prison officers.

The NASUWT has congratulated Ahmed Jassam Salih Al - Shiblawi of the Iraqi Teachers Union (ITU) who has been announced as the winner of Education International's Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award.

Chris Keates, NASUWT General Secretary, said: «Ahmed has displayed immense courage in his work to defend the human and trade union rights of teachers in Iraq.

Previous recipients of the International Solidarity Award are: Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) Jalila al Salman (2013) The National Executive has adopted seven guiding principles for conferring the Award to individuals whose contribution is to: (i) Defending human rights (ii) Defending trade union rights of teachers (iii) Working for quality education (iv) Demonstrating values of solidarity, equality and democracy (v) Educator / teacher (vi) Challenging violence, injustice, bigotry and hatred (vii) Working in countries outside the UK.

The NASUWT has been campaigning for Mahdi's freedom and to secure respect for trade union rights in Bahrain, working closely with Jalila, who was herself imprisoned for six months and still suffers from restrictions on her freedom of speech and employment.

Dr Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Trade union rights provide the litmus test of a society's progress towards freedom and democracy.

Mahdi Abu Dheeb, President of the BTA and Jalila al - Salman, Vice President, have been named the 2015 winners of the annual prize today by Norwegian trade unions in recognition of their struggle for trade union rights.

Trade union representatives then drew attention to the impending attacks on trade union rights.

Patrick — in 2015 over a half of trade unionists voted either Tory or UKIP, two parties explicitly committed to reducing trade union rights, which Cameron is now duly doing.

Carwyn Jones has been an outstanding leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister for more than 8 years, and I was his colleague and Minister in his Government for 15 years, securing pioneering legislation in housing, social services, health, trade union rights and the environment.

Johann Lamont, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, speaking to the annual conference of the train drivers» union ASLEF in Edinburgh, delivered a clear message of support for trade union rights, trade union involvement in policy - making and policies that trade unions have been seeking.

I was encouraged this week to hear the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterate his party's support for more trade union rights in this country.

The biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years will be unveiled on Wednesday, including new plans to criminalise picketing, permit employers to hire strike - breaking agency staff and choke off the flow of union funds to the Labour party.

It isn't migrants that drive down wages, it's exploitative employers and the politicians who deregulate the labour market and rip up trade union rights.

They would be unorganized and hence without trade union rights, or rights to minimum wages.

Unemployment enables employers and governments to reduce the rights of workers, restrict trade union rights especially in the free trade zones in the poor countries.

13) Do you believe that there is a need for new laws to protect workers rights, or trades union rights?

And to equate them to Progress is just silly — the Labour Party has always been home to socialists, social democrats, social liberals, centrists and even right wingers (I remember some of the trade union right and also old Labour right wingers like Bob Mellish)-- long may that continue!

Not exact matches

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right - to - work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

As former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal said when the bill was first debated in the Upper Chamber in 2013, Bill C - 377 is «an expression of statutory contempt for the working men and women in our trade unions and for the trade unions themselves and their right under federal and provincial law to organize.»

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

Significant progress on three key issues is needed for discussions to move on to the post-Brexit trade relationship between the UK and European Union (EU): the rights of EU citizens in the UK and vice versa, the UK's financial obligations to the EU, and the Irish border.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

China continues to deny basic labour rights around independent trade unions and collective bargaining.

MSN is facilitating dialogue between apparel brands and women's and trade union organizations to seek solutions to this and other women's rights issues.

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

In response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movement.

The struggles include fighting for the rights of the child (International Convention of 1989) and in particular the right to organise and educate the growing number of children in work, for the freedom of trade unions, the right to strike, against company closures due to the search for greater profitability.

It was not freedom for workers to organize trade unions, for blacks to vote, for aboriginal peoples to retain their lands, or for women to have equal rights with men.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

The European Court of Justice, the top court in the European Union, has upheld earlier rulings by the European trade mark office and the European Court of First Instance which deny Anheuser - Busch InBev the right to register the Budweiser name as a trade mark in the EU.

Nestlé is also accused of trade union busting activities in Colombia and refusing to accept court rulings in the Philippines over workers» rights.

And number five, they say engage with target groups, for example trade unions, workers» rights organizations, women's groups and youth groups to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

engage with target groups, e.g. trade unions, workers rights organizations, human rights agencies, occupational health organizations, and women's and youth groups, to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

We analysed the government's new Trade Unions Bill and concluded that the new legislation marks the beginning of the removal of akk workers rights.

The trade unions will demonstrate their support for pensioners on 30 November and the POA urges all right thinking workers to demonstrate on that day.»

Trade unions reacted with outrage today after a prominent right - wing thinktank branded 400,000 public sector job losses «easily manageable».

End private equity secrecy The UK's largest trade union has welcomed the government's plans for talks on greater protection and consultation rights for workers in companies taken over by private equity.

We need a plan for social security reform, stronger protection for workers and a repeal of the trade union act, and a wide review on workers rights, a real living wage, investment in local services, and reversing Tory cuts to policing.

Elsewhere in the speech, May promised control of laws, by leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ); control of immigration, by leaving the single market; rights of EU nationals, despite failing to guarantee at that point that they would not be deported; new trade deals, by leaving the customs union; and free trade with European markets, by pretending that nothing had happened.

By Nancy Platts Trade unions have often been at the forefront of demands for a better democracy for working people, whether it was the Chartists pushing for the right to vote in the 19th century to the Scottish TUC's role campaigning for a Scottish parliament two decades ago.