Sentences with phrase «which affiliated trade unions»

The 2008 Labour Party Conference was the first at which affiliated trade unions and Constituency Labour Parties did not have the right to submit motions on contemporary issues that would previously have been debated.

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All of which may help explain why Labour's rejection of McDonald's request to purchase a # 30,000 exhibition stand at its upcoming conference — on the basis the fast food giant is refusing to recognise Labour - affiliated trade union the BFAWU — was so controversial.

Instead Miliband will insist the switch to an opt - in system, in which trade union members actively choose to affiliate with Labour, is needed because it could restore Labour's status as a mass membership party of the people.

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.

The leader is elected by the PLP (which is made up of all Labour MPs), trade union members affiliated to the Labour party, and ordinary party members.

He wants to stop trade unions whose members have voted to have a political fund and which have decided to use part of that fund to affiliate to the party from doing so.

The Labour Party is a membership organisation consisting of individual members and Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and the Co-operative Party, with which it has an electoral agreement.

Labour movements often deal with issues like this, for example, an industrial dispute that covers a workplace chapel, of a trade section, of a trade union, which is affiliated to at least one Trades Hall Council, both the union and TUC being (factionalised) affiliates to a political party, which holds government, which runs the chapel section of the workplace in the first place.

Notes to Editors * The coalition of MPs and unions is being brought together by the Trade Union and Labour Liaison Organisation (TULO), the body which brings together Labour Party affiliated unions with Labour MPs.

Apparently, David's lead among the parliamentary third of Labour's electoral college was not big enough to compensate for his relative weakness among the other two sections, which are ordinary party members and affiliated trades - union members.

The disdain with which rebels in the Parliamentary Labour Party disregarded the statement from General Secretaries of 12 of the 14 affiliated trade unions, indicates turning their backs on the ethos and traditions of the Party.

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

The move comes on top of the government's trade union bill which is expected to cut Labour's funding from the unions by as much as # 8m, as members will be forced to opt in to subscriptions rather than being automatically affiliated with the choice of opting out.

Candidates are initially nominated by their parliamentary colleagues from within the Scottish Parliament, following which Westminster MPs, constituency Labour parties and affiliated trade union organisation can submit «supporting nominations», providing their backing to a specific candidates.

Voting took place between 17 November and 10 December using the three - tier electoral college system, which gives parliamentarians, individual members, and affiliated bodies such as trade unions an equal say in the outcome.

Given these two realities, NEA and AFT affiliate can never adopt the professional association or skill trades guild models found in other high - skilled fields; the unions can't become that which they never were.