Sentences with phrase «which trade union members»

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.

Not exact matches

Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and labor groups: The report cites the «majority» of members preferring to focus on issues outside trade deficits in favor of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the labor union representatives dissent in favor of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

Trade unions and trade associations can deliver for their members, which they can't in BriTrade unions and trade associations can deliver for their members, which they can't in Britrade associations can deliver for their members, which they can't in Britain.

Britain has just six - and - a-half million trade union members, which represents barely one - quarter of the nation's workforce.

'' [It will be] a democratic and campaigning union which will fight back for employees in the workplace, will take trade unionism out to the millions of unorganised workers, will stand up for equality for all and advance its members interests politically.

However, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke said: «I actually think the vast majority of members of the Labour party would quite like to see the party to stop being dependent on these millions from the trade unions, what is left of the trade union movement, that keeps trying to use that as political leverage which they do not want.»

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.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has produced a draft motion which you may wish to use as a basis for a response by your constituency party, members branch or trade union branch on the introduction of primaries:

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.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has produced a draft motion which you may wish to use as a basis for a response by your constituency party, members branch or trade union branch on the Labour Party - Trade Union trade union branch on the Labour Party - Trade Union union branch on the Labour Party - Trade Union Trade Union Union link:

The UK is no longer special, it used to be, while it was a member state, but it gave up all its special arrangements the day it called for article 50, economic strength post Brexit is arguably debatable, the UK is to lose its passporting rights (banks in Britain can trade on EU stock exchanges today, not once Brexit kicks in, the financial sector exports to EU weigh ~ # 35bn) and without clear trade deals, which look ever more unlikely given the simple solutions like customs union and single market do not seem to be feasible.

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.

Last week Michael Gove gave a speech which, among other things, differentiated between opposing trade union leaders and trade union members.

«He is very much part of the New Labour agenda which did seek on many occasions to beat up the trade unions... part of a New Labour agenda which is very comfortable with our members going through the trauma of privatisation... We will not go back to a New Labour agenda based on privatisation, and fragmentation and globalisation that we have had over the past few years.»

«Section 35 (1)(b) states inter alia: «A Federation of Trade Unions may be registered by the Registrar if... it is made up of 12 or more Trade Unions none of which SHALL have been a member of another registered Federation of Trade Unions.»

To make political donations trade unions must first conduct a secret ballot of their members to secure consent for the adoption of political objects and to adopt political fund rules according to which a separate political fund would be created.

Labor has been increasingly frustrated with the dysfunctional Senate Democratic leadership, and the AFL - CIO, in particular, which counts among its members the building trades and public sector unions, has a history of being allied with the Senate GOP.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

The emails from party members will be examined by the party's national policy forum (NPF), which meets this weekend in Leeds, and whose members include the shadow cabinet and trade union leaders.

When Margaret Thatcher attempted to sever the link between unions and the Labour Party with the 1984 Trade Union Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on poUnion Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on pounion's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on policy.

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.

The powerful Unite and GMB trade unions, which have thousands of members employed in the nuclear weapons industry, have warned Mr Corbyn not to ditch Labour's support for Trident.

The campaign in East London has involved health workers, patients and community groups with strong backing from organisers from Unite, the largest trade union in the country which has over 100,000 health worker members.

It is important not because of the extent to which Unite wields direct influence in this election: trade union members may comprise less than a third of those eligible to vote following the Collins changes and, with a lower turnout, perhaps 15 % or less of those who actually do so.

Also present, however, were some members from the city's construction trades unions, as well as members of Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents about 120,000 members in city locals.

It is important not because of the extent to which Unite wields direct influence in this election: trade union members may comprise less than a third of those eligible -LSB-...]

which is designed to involve all party stakeholders (including members, local parties, trade unions, socialist societies and Labour representatives) as well as the wider community in shaping party policy and support the relationship between the party in the country and the party in government.

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.

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.»

His father was a member of Poland's Solidarity trade union, which helped spark the movement that would topple communist rule in Eastern Europe.

Still, coal power accounts for 39 percent of carbon emissions within the European Union's emissions trading scheme, which includes factories and power stations from all 28 member states.

If you are a member of a Trade Union then your membership may include for legal funding which if available can be considered;

Rebecca has recently completed a research project which combined empirical work with an innovative comparative method to explore the responses of trade unions in five EU Member States to the challenges posed by the recent EU enlargements in 2004 and 2007.

«At Simpson Millar LLP we represent many trade union members which might be why lobbying for people's rights comes naturally to us.»

If you're not a trade union member, we have different funding choices available, which we can talk you through.

The following analysis focuses on two unrelated cases before the Ontario Labour Relations Board (hereinafter the «Board»), which consider whether it is an unfair labour practice to expel a member from a trade union after that member has joined another union.

Specifically, the Union alleged that Vanderpol had breached sections 6 (1) and 6 (3)(d) of the Labour Relations Code, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 244 (the «Code»), which prohibit an employer from interfering with the formation, selection or administration of a trade union, and seeking to compel or induce an employee to refrain from becoming or continuing to be a member of a uUnion alleged that Vanderpol had breached sections 6 (1) and 6 (3)(d) of the Labour Relations Code, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 244 (the «Code»), which prohibit an employer from interfering with the formation, selection or administration of a trade union, and seeking to compel or induce an employee to refrain from becoming or continuing to be a member of a uunion, and seeking to compel or induce an employee to refrain from becoming or continuing to be a member of a unionunion.

Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd v ASLEF [2016] EWHC 1320 QBD, 2 June 2016; [2016] IRLR 686 Interim injunction granted to prevent union from inducing train drivers employed on Southern and Gatwick Express services from taking part in industrial action, where GTR was likely to succeed at trial in showing (i) there had been a prior call by the trade union to take part in industrial action to which the ballot related; and (ii) the ballot had been extended to workplaces ta which there was no union member directly affected by the dispute.

They argued that the only way a trade union could be sued was by way of a representation order pursuant to r. 12.07, under which the court may authorize one or more individuals to defend a proceeding as representatives of the members of the trade union.

Prime Minister John A. MacDonald was a political foe of Brown, and took the opportunity to pass the Trade Unions Act, which precluded union members from being charged with conspiracy at common law.

This is the mentality of a militant trade union (of which I was a member many years ago, so I know of what I speak) that protects its members no matter what they do vis a vis law - breaking and / or despicable behaviour etc. «Blood is thicker than water», as the old saying goes, but in this case it should not be, because the water of the public interest is what nurtures a vocation's growth, not the bad - blood work of the realturds.