Sentences with word «unionist»

We support positive measures to strengthen and improve the relationship between the Party and the unions, for example by encouraging the greater democratic engagement of ordinary trade unionists in party structures and by developing the understanding of the nature and purpose of trade unionism among party members.

Labour maintains 65 per cent of Scots voted for unionist parties in the last election and the SNP has no mandate to push for independence.

But Fletcher's soft start should not fool anyone: With his election, he has become one of the region's most formidable political forces, commanding a battle - hardened phalanx of unionists in desperate need of fresh leadership.

«We also will be calling on the Government to recognise the Bahrain Teachers» Association and to allow teachers and academics to organise freely as trade unionists in accordance with international conventions.

The twelve Ulster Unionists who sat in the Commons from 1922 to 1974 never on their own made a decisive majority to overrule the English.

The prime minister has said she will now form a majority government with the Democratic Unionists of Northern Ireland.

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.

The rest of the group included everyone from trade unionists from East Oxford to well - meaning Jericho liberals, from young parents with their babies to their grandparents, and from life - long socialists to freshly politicized school children.

This moderation of its position and engagement with unionist parties in the power sharing arrangements has garnered it support from more middle class, anti-violence Catholics.

The SNP are a minority government in Scotland - outnumbered by unionist parties.

One MPs vote was worth hundreds of trade unionist votes in the leadership election.

But no decision was taken as unionist expressed reservation against it,» said Mr. G Sanjeeva Reddy, President of Indian National Trade Union.

Lack of Lib Dem MPs and the difficulty for unionist parties in finding coalition agreement with the SNP may make minority government the only option.

As long ago as 1994, teacher unionists from around the country, meeting in a Portland, Oregon, institute sponsored by the National Coalition of Education Activists, outlined a «social justice unionism» agenda that prefigured aspects of today's new unionism.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

For many unionists (not all, by any means), Catholics were simply inferior — politically and spiritually.

He is listed as an advisor on Think Scotland, a conservative - minded website funded by Scottish unionist businessman Robert Kilgour.

This culminated in a bitter row over Falkirk, when the right wing — Blairite shadow ministers, a majority of the PLP and the New Labour pressure group Progress — cried «foul «over UNITE's success in building support for yet another working class trade unionist candidate.

The Alliance party describes itself as a non-sectarian party which advocates co-operation between nationalist and unionist communities and is aligned with the Liberal Democrats.

How many trade unionists at that point will want to be «associate members» (or indeed any kind of member) of the Labour party?

There are already signs of dissatisfaction among unionists with their current leaders.

In a precarious Parliament, in which a # 1 - billion bung to Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists gives May a fragile 13 - seat majority, Labour whips losing authority over anything up to a dozen dumped MPs is viewed as the purity of defeat.

Local 420 asked fellow unionists across the state to oppose the bill and lobbied rural school - board members to contact their state representatives.

The party was seemingly haemorrhaging support amongst unionist voters to a Conservative party that appeared more confident in its defence of the Union.

Aracelia Cook (holding her award) was given the Annette Carlucci Celebration of Life Award for her work as a secretary and an active unionist.

Trade unionists get wound up about Royal Mail privatisation, but not the public.

And of course it was a London - based Scottish politician, Alistair Darling, who fronted the Better Together campaign in 2014, controversially joining Labour's unionist wing to the Tories and Lib Dems — a tactic many blamed for the party's poor showing in the following UK general election.

The government's bill changes the way trade unionists pay into their union's political fund, which is how unions donate to Labour.

As one party figure put it: «If just one in 10 trade unionists becomes an associate member, the unions will effectively control a majority of votes in a Labour leadership election.»

Since May's election gamble backfired, the Conservatives have only a one - seat majority in parliament thanks to a tactical deal with Northern Irish unionists.

A pact among the two largest unionist parties in Northern Ireland — the UUP and DUP — also virtually guaranteed a knife - edge result, with the contest framed as a battle between nationalism and unionism, or «Green and Orange».

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

Clarke professed himself baffled by the assembled journos, cartoonists, MPs and trades unionists asking if we spent -LSB-...]

The Bruges Group, WAGTV Ltd and Trade Unionists Against the European Union have given # 152,000 together.

Instead, Labour activists and trade unionists wanted a return to core Labour values and left - leaning policies after the centrism of the 1990s and 2000s.

Such unionist movements include the Ulster Unionist Party, Democratic Unionist Party and the Scottish Unionist Party.

Meanwhile, staunch unionists worried that the contractual change would signal the end of a truly united union.

Over the same period, unionists felt Air Canada executives failed to make similar sacrifices.

One hundred years ago, in 1912, the Conservatives merged formally with the Liberal Unionists, creating the Conservative and Unionist Party, which became the most successful political party in the western world.

When initially created this seat had a clear unionist majority, albeit with a strong nationalist minority.

many also active Trades Unionists.

Salmond also justifies another plebiscite by arguing unionists did not make clear that a vote to remain in the UK would «jeopardise» Scotland's membership of the EU.

In January, a group of trade unionists met with the Electoral Reform Society to discuss the key role that unions play in society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic Reform.

The first sign of this changed dynamic will be seen when her new relationship with the Ulster Unionists takes shape.

In the 1930s, socialist trade unionists formed the American Labor Party here basically to give people on the far left a way to support FDR and the New Deal without pulling the Democratic lever.

There is talk of granting devo - max to Scotland even among die - hard unionists within the Conservative party