Article: NORWAY: TROND GISKE NOT LO'S FIRST CHOICE FOR LABOR PARTY DEPUTY LEADER.(United Federation of Trade Unions)(Brief Article)

Article: Current issues in the skilled temporary subclass 457 ...
People and Place;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... visas (subclass 457). Several trade unions and the Australian Labor Party have asserted that some sponsoring ... issue. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and Federal Australian Labor Party (ALP) Opposition now vigorously ...

Article: NORWAY: JAGLAND SUGGESTS LOOSENING TIES TO LO.(Thorbjaern Jagland ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  December 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ...In a historic statement, Labor Party leader Thorbjaern Jagland has expressed his view that the working ... relationship between Labor and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) is too close to permit Labor to form a government coalition ...

Article: Labor's loose change. (British trade-unions help ...
The Economist (US);  February 20, 1988 ;     700+ words ...BY AVOIDING the company of big trade-union bosses, Mr Neil Kinnock is trying to put paid to the idea that the Labour party is in their pocket. The new system for selecting candidates for Parliament was a political setback for him, because it preserved the unions' influence. Now the party's general

Article: Decades of disillusion: reappraising the ALP-ACTU Accord ...
The Australian Journal of Politics and History;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...From 1983 to 1996, the ALP-ACTU Accord provided the overarching policy framework within which the Australian labour movement pursued its industrial and political goals, though this strategic direction was never consummated by the party in government. For at least the early part of that period,

Article: NSW: NSW Premier warns Labor to move cautiously on trade ...
AAP General News (Australia);  November 27, 2001 ;     281 words ... ... Premier warns Labor to move cautiously on trade unions NSW Premier BOB CARR has urged the Labor Party to move cautiously in reviewing its links ... to be persuaded to depart from rules at Labor Party conferences involving a 60-40 voting ...

Article: Britain's biggest rail union cuts funding to Labor ...
AP Worldstream;  June 25, 2002 ;     402 words ... ... decision will be a shock to the Labor Party but it cannot accept our money ... support union policies. The Labor Party said it was making no immediate ... severing the link between the trade unions and Labor Party, Wright said. (ej-rb)

Article: The natural party of opposition? Australia's Labor ...
The Economist (US);  December 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... after election, the Australian Labor Party's most fervent supporters ... of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. The Labor Party was born from the union movement ... and modernisation" of the Labor Party. But more difficult steps ...