Sentence examples for union backgrounds from inspiring English sources

Stonewall's chief executive, Ben Summerskill, acknowledges that in recent years, MPs with trade union backgrounds like John Prescott or Alan Johnson have been prepared to assert that equality means equality, which simply wasn't the case in the 1960s.

In recent years at the powerful Writers Guild of America West, an aggressive slate of fresh leaders headed by the union's president, Patric Verrone, ousted an executive director who had been regarded as too sympathetic to the companies, installed new managers with labor union backgrounds and resolved to re- establish what they saw as their guild's eroding power.

Today many Labour MPs come from trade union backgrounds or have close links to unions.

"She has a legislative background, a union background," he added.

She said that given her union background, "very little bothers me".

Similarly, says Paula B. Voos, a labor economist and professor at Rutgers, coming from a union background fosters a natural bond.

Coming from a union background, I would say that the best wage is one negotiated between workers (and their unions) and factories.

Only eight of the candidates in the 100 target seats come from a union background, compared to 14 out of the 69 new MPs in 1992.

Martin's union background gave him his first major break at Westminster when Denis Healey, then Labour's deputy leader, made him his parliamentary private secretary in 1981.

Prescott's robust manner, working-class roots, and trade union background provided an ideal foil for the middle-class, Oxford-educated Blair, and he quickly proved an indispensable ally to the party leader, supporting Blair in his policy initiatives and launching a campaign to overhaul Labour's organization and increase its membership.

"The big difference between Lula and Dilma is that he came from a trade union background, where you negotiate and chit-chat and converse and dialogue, seven days a week, 24 hours a day," Fleischer said.