Sentences with phrase «trade unions in»

In the traditional labour relations field, we represent both provincially and federally regulated trade unions in all types of labour relations board proceedings, including certifications, unfair labour practices, related employer applications and construction labour relations matters.

We also represent trade unions in other labour and employment law contexts, including in human rights proceedings, pay equity matters, pension and benefits disputes, workers» compensation matters, disability claims, employment standards disputes and occupational health and safety issues.

Mark represents trade unions in the private and public sectors in all kinds of collective agreement disputes.

While there are no comparable studies of the role of trade unions over the past four decades, preliminary research points both to an ongoing involvement of trade unions in workmen's compensation issues via service to their membership, and to, at times, a decided hesitancy to actively embrace the political struggles of the injured workers movement.

But many, including the mayor of Seattle and trade unions in the area, support the wage increases and contend that the ordinance will alleviate poverty and better address income inequality.

Ryan also represents employees who are not members of trade unions in employment law matters and litigates disability claims made by employees against insurance companies.

Rebecca has recently completed a research project which combined empirical work with an innovative comparative method to explore the responses of trade unions in five EU Member States to the challenges posed by the recent EU enlargements in 2004 and 2007.

It (Thompsons) is handling a substantial number of claims involving catastrophic injuries (including cerebral palsy, amputations and brain injuries) and acts for some of the most influential trade unions in the country.

She and her brother conceived the fair in response to a request from the Seward Park Cooperatives, the sprawling redbrick towers built by labor and trade unions in the 1960s, where Ms. Pak has shared a two - bedroom unit with Suhyun, 32, for six years.

The two unions, the NEA and the AFT, are without question the most politically potent trade unions in the United States.

Last month she told a world congress of trade unions in Caracas, Venezuela, that «sustainable development» means making «the exploitation of resources... consistent with present as well as future needs».

A further source of considerable regret to the CEC is that the party that had been formed to represent the interest of working people in this country intends to end collective engagement of trade unions in the party they helped to form.

The Labour Party was founded by trade unions in 1900 to give working - class people a voice in Parliament.

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.

The work undertaken by trade unions in raising the skills and ed - ucational achievements of the workforce, creating equality and diversity — which the CBI and the TUC agree increases productivity and profit — and looking beyond short - termism to create a genuinely sustainable economic vision is central to our economic recovery; as is a sense of cohesiveness that has nothing to do with the «Big Society» and everything to do with fairness, both in the workplace and outside it.

And, of course, the subsidy of the trade unions in return for them paying 90 % + of the Labour Party's bills.

Labour MP Diane Abbott has defended the role of trade unions in the party, claiming without them it is «a bunch of Oxford PPE [Philosophy, Politics and Economics] graduates looking for constituencies to represent.»

The latest offering from Mr Gove was delivered this morning at CCHQ and concerned the trade unions in general and their relationship with the Labour Party in particular.

The Trade Union Ordinance of 1941 was enacted by the British colonialists to legalise the formation of trade unions in the country.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

The NASUWT works closely with ITU and other sister trade unions in Iraq and has today sponsored a conference in London organised by the Iraqi Democratic Current to examine the future of Iraq.

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.

The Conservatives have said they will only rejoin cross-party talks if Labour agrees to include funding from trade unions in the # 50,000 donor cap, in what would be a financially crippling concession for the party.

They overwhelmingly want greater devolution, which is why the trade unions in particular argued for a second question in the referendum.

The Government has come under fire as it launches its biggest campaign against trade unions in 30 years.

A seemingly co-ordinated attempt to appeal for offside is underway, with complaints about the leading candidates» campaigning efforts and the role of the trade unions in the process.

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.

There are no independent trade unions in Cuba and Cuban citizen are often fired from their employment simply for declaring themselves to be against the government.

In 1981, the special Wembley conference increased the influence of trade unions in the selection of Labour parliamentary candidates and was one of the reasons the Gang of Four gave for quitting the Party.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

It seems to me that the most profound challenges were to Labour after 1983, since they had to adapt to Thatcherism following the party's own shift sharply left, and indeed a major split in the party with the SDP forming, and profound differences between the party leadership and the trade unions in Kinnock's first 2 years.

Secondly, it is another step in Cameron's grand plan to weaken the influence of trade unions in the British economy.

So, trade unions in Scotland also support the move to OPOV.

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

What is the future for trade unions in Britain?

Momentum largely lost out to better organised trade unions in the earlier round of selection battles in the seats Labour must win but the faction's discussing internally how to improve its success rate.

They were hostile to independent trade unions, but were there any independent trade unions in Soviet Union?

The agreement is opposed by the Nigeria Labour Congress, an umbrella organization for trade unions in the country.

The new legislation was suggested by the Solidarity trade union in a bid to ensure workers can spend more time with their loved ones.

On August 31, 1980, in Gdansk, Poland, the nation's communist leadership acceded to a list of demands of Solidarity, the first independent trade union in a communist country, whose ranks would swell to a third of the Polish working age population.

«TWU Local 100 and nearly every other trade union in New York State has withdrawn from the WFP precisely because of misguided actions such as these.

The largest trade union in the UK Border Agency has waded in on the criticism against Theresa May, with the PCS alleging there are inadequate contingencies and a lack of properly trained staff manning our borders

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills provided funding to the TUC for the Union Learning Fund (ULF) and unionlearn, the TUC's learning and skills organisation, to support trades unions in working with employers to raise skill levels in the workplace.

As the days dwindle until President Bush joins what Herbert Hoover called the «most exclusive trade union in the world,» the unpopular commander in chief appears decidedly enthusiastic about embracing a lower profile, recently declaring that he's more than ready to forgo the limelight.

About BFAWU: The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is the largest independent Trade Union in the food sector in the British Isles.

And his Conservative colleague Peter Bone said: «We had no notice of this, there was no debate and the vote took place hours after it was announced, no trade union in the country would be allowed to get away with that practice.»

The campaign in East London has involved health workers, patients and community groups with strong backing from organisers from Unite, the largest trade union in the country which has over 100,000 health worker members.

It is set to be the fourth largest trade union in the UK and the biggest union of teachers and education professionals in Europe.

The new National Education Union will become the biggest union of teachers and education professionals in the whole of Europe, as well as the fourth largest trade union in the UK, with almost half a million members.

In September, the NUT and ATL will form the National Education Union (NEU), which will become the fourth largest trade union in the UK and the largest teachers» organisation in Europe.