Sentences with phrase «union organiser»

In a show full of passionately polemical paintings — Alice Neel's heroic portrait of the union organiser Pat Whalen, fists bearing down on the newspaper headlines; Mussolini as a green - faced jack - in - a-box; Guston's horrifying Guernica tondo — Wood's lyrical ruralism still holds its own.

Despite the repressive political atmosphere, he wished to become a labor union organiser.

He was later accused of «backsliding» by hard - left challenger and union organiser Ian Allison who has announced he will seek nominations to join the leadership race.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who first met Jowell in the 1970s when she was a north London councillor and he was a union organiser, described her as a «warm and compassionate» person.

Former deputy leader of party and ex-trade union organiser announce they will stand in election to replace Kezia Dugdale

I think is fairly described as a very robust Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser background (I would place him very much on the right of the party, though you may well approve of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax rate and other more left / liberal rebellions, which shows he is not easily pigeonholed).

21) A rare personal passage describes Corbyn getting his socialism from his parents and working as a teacher and trade union organiser.

He used to be a trade union organiser and a Haringey councillor, in London.

«Later as a trade union organiser seeing the way in which we can challenge injustice at the workplace and inequality through trade union membership.

He chose not to go to university and instead started work as union organiser representing public sector workers in local authorities and the health service.

Australian Manufacturing Workers» Union organiser Angela McCarthy said a carbon build up in the pipe caused it to burst, spraying the worker's forearms with oil.

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

Trade union organisers had expected upwards of 100,000 people to arrive in London.

Last week we published TPA research which found that trade union organisers were being funded by us at the cost of # 67 million per year.

At first, it seems an outlandishly ill - matched assembly: union organisers and museum directors, communists and millionaires, ladies who lunch and nightclub strippers.

In 1981 the FBI collaborated with Marcos agents to gun down cannery workers and union organisers Domingo and Viernes.

Not exact matches

1: The Fine Wine Fair (FWF) is organised and staged by Union Press Limited (the organisers) whose decision in the event of any dispute shall be final.

In 1987 Thatcher proclaimed «there is no such thing as society», 22 years later we have a community organiser, supported by the trade union movement, in the most powerful job in the world, President of the United States of America.

Having rejected a career in teaching, Ellen became the organiser for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

At just 24, she was appointed as the National Organiser of the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative employees — today part of USDAW.

The organisers have arranged open press access and gained sponsorship from two Labour - affiliated unions and a major NGO.

Other trips included multi-day visits to Antigua, one funded by a trade union and another by a regional forum; visits to Rio de Janeiro for conferences; trips to Dubai sponsored by conference organisers; visits to Saudi Arabia and the UAE covered by the respective governments of each country; and a visit to Florida to speak on biomass power generation.

Jennie Formby, an organiser for the Unite union, looks all but certain to be Labour's next general secretary, completing Jeremy Corbyn's control of the most senior posts in the party, after the GMB union threw its weight behind her.

Organiser for Unite union, whose candidacy has been promoted by Corbyn's office, receives support of GMB union

Momentum organisers in Lewisham have told PoliticsHome they are concerned about a similar trade union «stitch up» over the plum seat, which Labour retained last June with a 21,000 majority.

The organisers said they had received «massive support» from other agencies, including South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, South Yorkshire Police, the Home Office and a number of trade unions.

But obviously all candidates had their own organisers within the ranks of the unions, and I surmise these organisers weren't all political amateurs.

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.

Understanding the industry Some teacher unions have voiced concern about transport safety among teachers and group travel organisers responsible for organising school trips by coach.

But the regional organiser of the teaching union NASUWT Simon Kennedy said money invested in «half empty» free schools could be better spent elsewhere.

Rex Philips, Wales organiser for the teaching union NASUWT, said: «Whilst is right that the best and the brightest of our pupils and their teachers should be congratulated for their outstanding achievements at GCSE this year, we should not lose sight of the fact that pupils who achieve a D, E or G may well have excelled themselves.

• Treasurer of the Oxford Union • Committee member of the Oxford Guild • President of the Asian society • Divali Ball organiser • Marketing coordinator for Hindu society

See also this Guardian article from Celeste Liddle, National Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).

Matt McLaughlin, regional organiser for trade union Unison, said: «This independent report confirms what Unison members said all along.