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| Britain's Labor Leader further Reduces Union Ties | |
| 2014-02-02 | |
[An Nahar] The leader of Britannia's opposition Labor party, Ed Miliband, revealed plans on Saturday to further reduce the influence of trade unions on the party.
The current electoral college system gives a third of the votes each to the unions, party members, and elected members of the British and European parliaments. Miliband proposes to scrap this and give every member of the center-left party a direct vote for a new leader. The reforms build on his plans announced last year to change the party's financial ties with the trade unions, which helped found Labor in 1900. Miliband wants to end the process by which union members are automatically affiliated to Labor unless they opt out, saying it makes no sense in the 21st century. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... it risks having a major impact on the finances of the party, which depends on union donations. When the move was announced last July, media reports suggested Labor nets £8 million (nine million euros, $12 million) a year from almost three million union workers -- the majority of the party's funds. | |
| Posted by:Fred |