Sentences with phrase «trade union vote»

The big trade unions have mostly endorsed Ed Miliband, and once they contact their members urging them to back Ed it may well shift the trade union vote in his favour.

The share of the trade union vote at conference was 70 % in 1992, it is now 50 % and we have resisted moves to reduce it to 40 %.

As well as MPs and members, he had over 50 % of trade union vote in a 3 - way contest.

What is forgotten is that trade unions voted for this change because the current system gives parliamentarians, not trade unions, a stranglehold on the vote.

At least what an account of Labour latest national policy forum revealed here on Left Futures in a piece headlined Trade unions vote against ending austerity in 2015.

However, it also insisted that collective affiliation of the trade unions should continue alongside the opting - in of individual levy - payers and that there should be no diminution of trade union voting strength or representation within Labour party structures.

Not exact matches

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wall Street shares plunged on Monday as investors fled technology stocks amid resurgent trade war worries, with key indexes trading below their 200 - day moving averages and the S&P 500 closing below that pivotal technical level for the first time since Britain's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016.

Conservative MP Fiona Bruce spoke out as members of the trade union prepare to vote on the proposal during the BMA's annual conference in Bournemouth.

The Civil Service Trade Union, IMPACT also campaigned for a «Yes» vote.

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.

The previous structure gave votes to three blocks — MPs, trade unions and other affiliated organisations, and party members.

This has now been changed to one - member - one - vote, although affiliated trade union members can sign up to become affiliated members and get a vote that way.

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.

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.

However what makes it really interesting is that there is a convention that the trade unions will generally reflect the recommendations of the NEC in their conference delegate voting patterns.

Murray, also chief of staff at the trade union Unite, Labour's largest financial backer, wrote: «A lot of guff has been talked about the vote being «a matter of conscience.»

Much attention is given to the move to One Person One Vote and the role of trade unions in the current electoral college.

It split votes between MPs (30 %), party members (30 %) and trade unions and socialist societies (40 %).

[43] In the fourth and final stage of the redistribution of votes after three candidates had been eliminated, Ed Miliband led in the trade unions and affiliated organisations section of the electoral college (19.93 % of the total to David's 13.40 %), but in both the MPs and MEPs section (15.52 % to 17.81 %), and Constituency Labour Party section (15.20 % to 18.14 %), came second.

As I've pointed out before, the party's tripartite electoral college (divided between MPs / MEPs, party members, and affiliated trade unions and socialist societies) means that some votes are worth significantly more than others.

However, the PLP still held 30 % of the vote with 30 % going to constituency parties and 40 % to affiliated trade unions.

It has the support of millions of people in the trade unions, has mobilised hundreds of thousands on protests against austerity and inspired hundreds of thousands of people to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.

That means endless congressional discussion during which Obama will depend on Republican votes, given the hostility in the Democratic party and trade unions to TTIP.

Local parties and trade unions chose Grenfell Tower, rail services, growth and investment, public sector pay, workers» rights, the NHS, housing and social care as the eight topics for full debate and votes, with Brexit motions failing to win the necessary backing.

Not only did he defeat his older brother, David, by a very small margin, he also won thanks to the votes of the trade unions.

• Require a clear description of the trade dispute and the planned industrial action on the ballot paper, so that all union members are clear what they are voting for.

CLPs were angry that the trade unions sided with the NEC to vote down their resolutions.

I have no reservations in recommending that every trade unionist should vote Labour, and that the unions, whether affiliated to the Labour Party or not, have an interest in promoting a Labour victory.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

Healey is the second most popular MP in the PLP according to the shadow cabinet vote, so I'd argue he's likely to attract votes from across the party, including among trade union and left MPs.

Most members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party would NOT vote Labour if a general election were held this week, according to... (Comments: 49)

A last - minute attempt to get the Labour party to agree to revisit its link to trade unions in five years» time was seen off on Tuesday at a meeting of the Labour national executive committee (NEC), which voted overwhelmingly to back Ed Miliband's far - reaching reforms.

After a spell as a trade union officer, Watson became an MP in 2001 and rose fast, becoming a junior whip in 2004 and junior defence minister two years later, when his nightly ministerial papers included details of British soldiers killed in Iraq, a conflict he voted in favour of.

• I am a trade union member, and as my trade union is affiliated to the Labour party, I was told I would have a vote in the leadership election.

If Serwotka is not to be seen as hypocritical, I challenge him to introduce a rule change which will enable supporters to vote in the leadership election of the PCS by paying # 3 and stating they support the aims and objectives of the trade union movement.

He wants to stop trade unions whose members have voted to have a political fund and which have decided to use part of that fund to affiliate to the party from doing so.

Paul: My conclusion that «here must have been a significant number of voters who cast just one vote for John Healey» is based on the premise (admittedly my own supposition) that «There are likely to have been a substantial number of trade union and left MPs who will have voted for both Dennis Skinner and Steve Rotherham».

At the recent Progress conference, where he first attacked trade unions for wanting to influence the outcome of current selections, he also described union voting strength at conference as «disgraceful» — and this was in answer to a question inviting him to outline what united Progress and Unite!

There are likely to have been a substantial number of trade union and left MPs who will have voted for both Dennis Skinner and Steve Rotherham — almost certainly a clear majority of each of their votes.

Trade union halves official number of members affiliated to the party in wake of Ed Miliband's voting reforms

It is easy for McClusky and his associates to assume that all trade unionists vote Labour, and that indeed all UNITE members approve of their union subscriptions going to the Labour Party.

Representatives of local unions in the building trades, as well as the industrial, public and service sectors, voted on the candidate selections.

Nick Boles, the trade union minister told me earlier that the «vast majority» had turn outs of more than 50 % and secured the backing of at least 40 % of those eligible to vote.

Labour - supporting trade unions are quietly affiliating scores of branches to the party — allowing those branches a vote on party positions — in key constituencies in a bid to influence future reselection battles, the Guardian has learned.

Jeremy Corbyn on collision course with trade unions over Trident Jeremy Corbyn: Labour members could vote on Trident renewal

Under the new rules, party members, registered supporters and registered trade unions all have one vote.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have joined other AMs in voting against the «undemocratic» Trade Union Bill in an Assembly vote today, in the hope that the Bill's provisions won't apply to Wales if eventually passed by Westminster.

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.

Delegates voted to end the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introduce a «one member, one vote» system in leadership elections.