Sentences with phrase «union political levy»

The paper confirms that Lord Collins, the former party official appointed by Miliband to conduct the review, is proposing a new two - stage process by which union political levy payers will in future be linked to the party.

Labour is facing a funding problems because of the changes to trade union political levy rules in the trade union bill which are expected cost the party a whopping # 6m a year.

Labour party's national executive votes to support recruitment of union political levy payers as affiliated supporters

In the union section of the electoral college, representing a third of the college, union political levy payers vote individually, on ballots requiring them to tick a box saying they support Labour.

Not exact matches

• Require all unions, not just those affiliated to Labour, to ask each existing union member whether they wish to pay the political levy and then repeat the question every five years.

The Javid plans, which were not clearly set out in the Conservative manifesto, are likely to blow a hole in Labour party funding because the number of union members who will proactively support paying the political levy will be much lower than those who pay the political levy through inertia.

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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.

But this is what could be happening to millions of trade union members each year as trade union membership forms fail to notify members of the political levy added to their membership fees.

Members of affiliated unions will be asked to give positive consent if they wish some of the political levy to go to Labour.

Over the past few years more and more unions have been paying less and less money into the labour party and in fact using the political levy for themselves.

Pat Purcell, a top official of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, said the organization sent Mr. Levy a letter a week ago demanding he refund the $ 5,200 its political action committee gave him over the last two years.

The strength of a union's vote is dependent on the number of its political levy payers.

In the first stage a union member will have to consent positively to opt in so part of their political levy goes to Labour, and the number of union members that agree to that become the basis of a union's collective affiliation to the party.

For the first time, union levypayers, starting immediately with new members, will be asked positively to consent for # 3 of their political levy to be paid to the Labour party in an affiliation fee.

A member of an affiliated union pays a political levy automatically, unless they opt out.

Members from the trade unions would also have to explicitly «opt in» rather than «opt out» of paying a political levy to Labour.

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.

Affiliated supporters (AS): these are members of a socialist society or members of an affiliated trade union who pay the political levy, who are on the electoral register, and who have signed up as an AS online or through their organisation.

By effectively endorsing «contracting in» to the political levy and union members consenting to a portion of this going to Labour, a key institutional stumbling block had been removed.

The pledge card also proposes offering free membership to trade unionists as well as a right for union members to choose to donate their political levy to the Conservatives as opposed to Labour.

«The politics of resentment are very potent right now, and Levy is an expert at playing them,» says Bob Master, the political director of the communications - workers union and a leader of the Working Families Party.

Priti Patel: Union members must have opt - in choice for party donations - and political fund levies to end abuse

Labour officials said there was no ambiguity in the wording, arguing that the reference to a positive choice meant union members would have to say yes on a form when asked if they want some of their political levy to go to Labour in the form of an affiliation fee.

Gordon Brown's replacement will be chosen by an electoral college split three ways between MPs, Labour Party members and union members who have not opted out of paying a political levy.»

Each union member will have to agree in writing every five years to opt into paying the political levy, as opposed to opting out via the current system.

The rules will apply to all 4 million existing political levy payers in unions affiliated to Labour, and those who are not.

The Tories should also do more to empower trade union members to decide how their political levy is used.

Trade unions would have at least a third - although all payers of the political levy would be enfranchised, rather than the current system which enfranchised just the more politically committed.

One party insider said there has been a fierce debate within the Miliband circle between those who believe that the reforms are a key test of his leadership and that a failure to introduce radical change would substantially damage his credibility - and those who feel he risks putting the party's financial viability at risk by allowing union members to opt out of their so - called political levy contributions to the party.

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.»