Sentences with phrase «union leadership elections»

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He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

Given the absurd election rules ushered in under Ed Milliband (his most lasting legacy) and the unwavering backing from hard left union leadership, it is likely that Corbyn will emerge victorious.

Alan Milburn and Margaret Hodge both call for the party to deprieve the unions of a say in the leadership election, without whom, of course, Miliband would not have won.

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions.

Having seen them deliver a leadership election for him, there are only so many times Ed Miliband can carry his pail to the trade union well.

In the 2010 Labour leadership election, union members tilted to the left and were decisive in handing victory to Ed Miliband.

We salute the election to the leadership of our Union of the Guinean President, His Excellency Alpha Condé, a renowned fighter for democracy and human rights in his native Guinea.

• 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.

However, very few affiliated union members will be entitled to vote if a leadership contest is called after a 2015 election defeat due to the phasing of the scheme.

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

He dismisses suggestions that his plans for one person, one vote elections for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership will lead to ordinary members being swamped by a stage army of leftwing union activists recruited as affiliated supporters.

Britain's biggest union has been accused of ignoring Labour rules in the way it is urging its members to back Ed Miliband in the party's leadership election.

Labour's leadership election rules, for example, Mandelson claims gave a deciding voice to union organisers, many of whom were not Labour members.

The trade unions have less impact under the new leadership rules than they had in previous elections.

Trades unions will no longer control a third of the votes in Labour leadership elections, under proposed changes to be announced by Ed Miliband.

In 1983, former union leader Bob Hawke challenged Bill Hayden for the leadership of the Australian Labour Party just before the election.

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

The main trade unions have been signing up supporters ahead of the leadership election.

Next Monday, the ballots for the PEF leadership vote will be sent out by the American Arbitration Association, the firm that administers the union's elections.

Whilst the myth may be «union power» swaying leadership elections, the truth is that MPs exert too much power over the process (why should they be more important than councillors etc).

A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of PEF, one of New York's largest state workers unions, has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.

We know, from party sources, how Labour's selectorate divides between full party members and those who have signed up, either via their trade union or by paying # 3, to vote in the leadership election.

The letter from a firm of solicitors to Unite, the union which Mr McCluskey heads, says the rules about the leadership election are clear.

A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of one of New York's largest state workers unions has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.

These figures accord with media reports that Labour had 200,000 members before the election, and that the leadership - electorate is around 300,000, with 50,000 having joined as full members and a further 50,000 registered via the trade union or # 3 route.

In a speech setting out how Labour would move on from an election defeat that remained «very raw», Ms Harman stressed that the influence of the unions over the decision on leadership had been altered by the move to a «one person, one vote» electoral system.

With 20 % of Labour's electorate yet to make up their mind — and with unions still signing up members to register to take part in this year's leadership election — the race is wide open.

Top union leaders have rallied behind Mr Corbyn, pointing at his «resounding mandate,» but have said they will respect the outcome of a leadership election.

For example, Labour Uncut have suggested that the implementation committee might change the basis of the London mayoral primary, and any early leadership election so that union members can be fully involved.

A lot of the policy originates from the first leadership campaign, when Andrew Fisher was actually working at PCS [trade union] and managing to turn out a huge number of documents which formed the skeleton of the general election manifesto.

Ed Miliband is weak, ineffective, irrelevant and just a puppet to his trades union pals who put him in power in the first place — just as it was clear he would be when he won the leadership election.

«Labour is to look at broadening its electoral base by offering the chance for Labour sympathisers, and not just members or union levy payers, to be given a vote in the Labour leadership election.

Campbell was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015 [8] and one of a handful of Labour MPs to publicly support leaving the European Union.

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.

... the teachers» union leadership opposed any alternative candidate to the governor in last year's election, from the mild - mannered liberal Democrat Zephyr Teachout who challenged Cuomo in the party primary, to the radical Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is himself a former New York City teacher.

Our survey sample is composed of 1,236 members of the Labour selectorate, with the representation levels of difference membership types (member / supporter / union affiliate) based on how each group turned out in the 2015 leadership election.

Labour say this will make their party a mass - membership institution with individual union members choosing to affiliate to the party and having a say in leadership elections - one member one vote - instead of unions acting on their behalf.

But opponents of the Labour party say this would actually give the unions more power because all those affiliated members will actually take up more of the membership block than the unions were getting in the leadership election.

Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, says that only full party members should be allowed a vote in leadership elections and that the unions should no longer have a «structural relationship» with Labour.

Under the plan, the electoral college system for leadership elections - which gives a third of the votes each to the unions, rank and file party members, and the MPs and MEPs - will be scrapped for a system of one member, one vote.

In Labour leadership elections, union members vote individually, by post.

There is even less prospect of party conference (where half the votes lie with the trade unions) agreeing any OMOV process which would exclude trade unionists from future leadership elections even if it is supported by 56 % of Labour List readers.

He criticises the party's election rules, suggesting union levy payers should automatically be registered as party supporters, describing the 9 % turnout in last year's leadership contest as paltry.

At a conference of the Scottish Campaign for Socialism on Saturday attended by a hundred leading CLP and trade union activists, MSPs, MPs and Scottish party executive members, former MSP Bill Butler said of the forthcoming leadership election:

As some claimed the result placed Labour on track for electoral meltdown, the general secretary of a trade union that has backed Corbyn in two leadership elections issued a stark warning.

The Labour leader's comments came as he hosted a special conference in London where delegates will vote on ending the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introducing «one member, one vote» in leadership elections.

But the Labour leader declined to give details of what might happen to the unions» voting strength at party conference and in future leadership elections

She's a national officer for trade union Prospect and voted for Ed Balls in the leadership election, but quoted support from other leadership candidates (not including Dianne Abbott).

Mr Miliband won the last leadership election largely thanks to support from unions, but Mr McCluskey said he suspected only 10 % of its one million members affiliated to Labour would opt to stay in if asked now.