Sentences with phrase «union voting strength»

However, it also insisted that collective affiliation of the trade unions should continue alongside the opting - in of individual levy - payers and that there should be no diminution of trade union voting strength or representation within Labour party structures.

At the recent Progress conference, where he first attacked trade unions for wanting to influence the outcome of current selections, he also described union voting strength at conference as «disgraceful» — and this was in answer to a question inviting him to outline what united Progress and Unite!

Not exact matches

Another strength is the makeup of the union: predominantly black and Latino, many of them city residents who will vote in Democratic primaries.

At the time, the unions controlled five - sixths of the voting strength at the party conference.

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

But the strength of individual union votes will be determined by the number of people who pay an affiliation fee.

«This is the last issue we need to crack in New York City and to do that we need to locate the voters who are really concerned and who will vote on charters, vote on parochial schools, vote on the problems caused by the strength of the teachers» unions,» he said.

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