Sentences with phrase «trade unionists pay»

The government's bill changes the way trade unionists pay into their union's political fund, which is how unions donate to Labour.

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A total of 506,438 party members, trade unionists and registered supporters (the latter paying # 25) voted.

Ask who the Party chiefly seems to represent and C1 / C2 voters - along with much of the rest of the population - are clear: those on low pay and benefits, and trade unionists.

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.

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.

Trade unionists are not paying the political levy via tax havens.

This won't be because individual trade unionists who previously paid their political levy might not sign up to a pro-union Labour Party, it is just that the Labour Party Lord Adonis and his friends feel comfortable with is going to be about as friendly to the unions as, well, every other Westminster party.

Not only did affiliated trade unionists, and people who paid three pounds to take part back Mr Corbyn by big majorities; he also enjoyed the backing of around 60 % of the near - 100,000 people who have joined Labour as full members since May.

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.

He will propose an end to affiliation fees from the unions, switching to a system where individual trade unionists «opt in» to pay towards the party.

When «contracting in'to the political levy was introduced in the 1920s, around a quarter of trade unionists stopped paying the levy, though the impact on Labour's finances was lessened by the raising of the affiliation fee.

The committee is expected to recommend that the 4 million trade unionists who pay into the political fund are exempted for now, handing a temporary reprieve to Labour.

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.»