Sentences with phrase «union voting power»

Only those paying the premium are counted in the union voting power.

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Some Republican state Senators were recalled in Wisconsin for voting to curb union power, but Republican Governor Scott Walker survived a recall effort against him.

European Union and Asian governments are frustrated that the U.S. Congress has held up a reform of voting rights in the International Monetary Fund that would give China and other emerging powers more say in global economic governance.

The British government's recent setbacks are also weighing on the pound, a typical tailwind for shares in dollar earnings British companies, after Britain's upper house voted to give parliament powers to block or delay a final deal on departure from the European Union.

After voting to stay in the union, Scotland's reward was to be told that its elected representatives could have even less power in the UK parliament.

But if the Scots vote to keep the Union, more powers for Edinburgh could be to the party's political advantage.

After five years, the number of union members affiliated to the party will determine a union's voting power at the party conference.

However, if parity of voting power held between the unions, the PLP, and party members, Benn would have won.

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.

If the vote is they stay, then both parties have to get around the table and make a legally binding document of what Labour expects from the Unions and what powers the Union have.

A fifth of Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn's three - line whip to vote against legislation granting Theresa May the power to trigger the UK's exit from the European Union.

[39] The award was given after the British vote to leave the European Union and the rise to power of Donald Trump in the United States, both of which the think tank strongly supported.

The political truce that helped save the Union collapsed last night as David Cameron promised «English votes for English laws» once Scotland is handed new powers.

Moreover, it remains the case that affiliated unions would prefer Labour to be in power than the Conservatives or a Conservative - led coalition (even if their members may not always vote Labour).

Possible reasons include if Cameron resists the SNP's demands for greater devolution of powers, if the UK votes to leave the European Union or withdraw from the European convention on human rights, or if the SNP wins a decisive victory at the Holyrood elections in 2016 having expressed a desire for another referendum in its manifesto.

There are also concerns union leaders will use their powers to register large numbers of associate members and influence their decisions, despite the loss of their votes.

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

This gives union general secretaries the power to write large cheques and defend having significant representation on the party's governing National Executive Committee, the votes at party conference, the choice of party leader as well as local selections.

But Mr Kenny also warned that any attempt to break the unions» voting power at party conference or within the party's ruling NEC would break any deal.

Being invited into the «rooms of power» certainly has its advantages, but I truly believe that unions, including teacher unions, can have a far great impact by standing on principle and reminding candidates that there is a price for turning their backs on the most fundamental values of the people whose votes they want.

But as things stand now, Nana could have voted a union into power in the 1970s (or before) and if you ply the same trade as she, you would be forced to be represented by the same union.

«Students Powered the Vote Main Union of Concerned Scientists Report Finds One - Third of US Coal Plants Ripe For Retirement»

Rob Nikolewski, «Nuclear power receives its death sentence in California: Regulators vote to shut down Diablo Canyon,» The San Diego Union - Tribune, January 11, 2018

Giving the Board the power to impose automatic certification of a union, without a vote, in the event an employer is found to have engaged in an unfair labour practice, or automatic revocation of a union's certification, without a vote, in the event the union is found to have engaged in an unfair labour practice.