Sentences with phrase «trade unionists in»

In a unanimous decision, it welcomed «any measures which increase the involvement of individual trade unionists in the Labour Party» and, as had been advocated by Len McCluskey from the start, specifically agreed Miliband's proposal that «individual political levy paying members of trade unions be encouraged to «opt in'to associate membership of the Labour Party as part of the drive to build a Party of mass membership.»

Mr McCluskey said the reforms would help to start «involving more trade unionists in the business of the party».

Teacher trade unionists in Colombia, Iraq, Zimbabwe and Bahrain are being subjected to violence and oppression.

His letter to members adds: «It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.

«We also will be calling on the Government to recognise the Bahrain Teachers» Association and to allow teachers and academics to organise freely as trade unionists in accordance with international conventions.

«It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in Parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.»

We support positive measures to strengthen and improve the relationship between the Party and the unions, for example by encouraging the greater democratic engagement of ordinary trade unionists in party structures and by developing the understanding of the nature and purpose of trade unionism among party members.

But they should be careful not to make it appear that they're hostile to trade unions and trade unionists in general.

The political fund, which Plaid is asking trade unionists to opt out of, is used to finance all of our political campaigns, from supporting manufacturing in Wales to highlighting the murder of trade unionists in Colombia.

Its adherents now — the John Reids and Jonathan Powells of the world — are as dated as they thought the trade unionists in the party were in their own day.

In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.»

Not exact matches

Christophe Aguiton: «My name is Christophe Aguiton, I am French, a trade unionist, but I am currently particularly active in movements against unemployment in France, with «Agir Contre le Chômage» and, at the European level, with the network of European Walks against Unemployment, Employment Instability and Exclusion.

She was a spokesperson on behalf of striking workers, a volunteer teacher in night schools for railroad workers, and an active trade unionist.

Samuel Gompers expressed the trade unionist's lack of confidence in ministers accusing them of being apologists and defenders of the status quo and of using «their exalted positions to discourage and discountenance all practical efforts of the toilers to lift themselves out of the slough of despondency and despair.»

Ah, the «consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life,» which the Crusades, the various Inquisitions, genocidal forced conversions during the conquest of the Americas, complicity in the NAZI - engineered Holocaust [against Jews, Gypsies, trade unionists, university professors, disabled persons, outspoken Protestants, and others], complicity in Vietnamese Catholic genocide against Buddhists, etc., etc., etc.,... all render consistently inconsistent!

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be joining other trade unionists, anti fascist, anti racist campaigners and the public tomorrow (21 June), in a national demonstration and carnival parade organised by Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

The process by which parliamentary candidates are chosen was also reformed so that trade unionists could be frozen out and replaced by young Blairites — people whose soft hands demonstrated the fact they had never worked in industry, or indeed anywhere except in think tanks or parliament.

As a trade unionist I didn't join the movement in order to feather my own nest, or jump on a gravy train.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

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 ReforIn 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 Reforin society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic Reform.

As a young trade - unionist, she helped organise the Suffrage Pilgrimage in 1913, where more than 50,000 women marched to a mass rally in Hyde Park.

In the 1930s, socialist trade unionists formed the American Labor Party here basically to give people on the far left a way to support FDR and the New Deal without pulling the Democratic lever.

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

Contrary to what many public sector trade unionists would like us to believe, voter perceptions of the quality of public services have not worsened, and in some cases — local public transport — have actually improved since October 2010.

Labour previously used an electoral college of MPs / MEPs, party members and trade unionists to choose its leaders, including Ed Miliband in 2010.

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.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

In relation to External pressures, the link was threatened as early as 1909, by court action brought by a Liberal trade unionist — Walter Osborne.

It was the same with the AES, developed with the input of large numbers of people, numerous economists, Labour party policy staff, trade unionists, shop stewards and convenors in companies like Vickers and Lucas Aerospace, Leyland and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, the Communist Party and many more.

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.

Let's ask Netroots Nation to post data about how many trade unionists attended, and make it a goal to exceed that number in 2012.

This requirement for positive consent is a change: trade unionists were previously automatically entitled to vote in Labour leadership elections.

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.

Former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai led his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to victory in 2008 parliamentary elections and won the first round of the presidential vote.

The Police Federation, the main union body for officers, was accused of using tactics similar to those of «militant trade unionists» by former commissioner Paul Stephenson in an article for the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

It will be followed by a meeting in parliament's grand committee room in which trade unionists, MPs and lawyers debate how to continue their fight.

The party described him as a trade unionist employed as a researcher at the National Assembly who specialises in finance, transport and local government.

This culminated in a bitter row over Falkirk, when the right wing — Blairite shadow ministers, a majority of the PLP and the New Labour pressure group Progress — cried «foul «over UNITE's success in building support for yet another working class trade unionist candidate.

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.

Laura was born and raised in the North East and is a hard working party activist, community campaigner and trade unionist.

«I am proud that the NASUWT has been able to play a part in supporting Ahmed and all the brave teachers and trade unionists across the world fighting for freedom, social justice and human rights.

He suggested trade unionists were facing a return to the attacks seen in the 1970s and 1980s because only the unions are capable of offering the «only real organised challenge in society to the values and views of our bankrupt establishment».

«What we know about fascists is that they need to be defeated and it is why, as we have heard tonight, socialists and trade unionists were just one part of the international brigade in the 1930s to fight against Franco.

«And that is why trade unions, trade unionists and the Labour movement are playing such an important role in keeping Scotland and the United Kingdom together.

«I am told by one figure close to proceedings that the bellicose nanny figure was intended by Danny Boyle to stand for Mrs Thatcher in her struggles with the NUM and other militant trade unionists.»

He said the party were «glorying in the middle classes» joining the party in recent months, while trade unionists «sat on their hands» or left the party.

These trade unionists have been unjustly imprisoned and tortured for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly during the recent uprising in Bahrain.

Voting closed on Wednesday in the complicated electoral college race, where MPs and MEPs have one - third of the vote, with rank - and - file party members and up to three million trades unionists who pay a political fee to Labour sharing the rest.

And it is why, as we have heard tonight, socialists and trade unionists and others joined the international brigade in the 1930s to fight against Franco; it's why this entire House stood up against Hitler and Mussolini; it is why our party has always stood up against the denial of human rights and for justice.