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ASLEF is affiliated to the Labour Party. Labour was founded in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee , and in 1903, ASLEF voted to affiliate to it. [ 55 ] In the 1906 general election , ASLEF General Secretary Albert Fox was the LRC candidate for Leeds South , where he polled 4,030 votes. [ 56 ]
The party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee and the unions have retained close institutional links with it. Affiliated unions pay an annual fee to the Labour Party; in return, they elect thirteen of the thirty-nine members of Labour's National Executive Committee and fifty per ...
Keith Norman was general secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), the train drivers' trade union in Great Britain, from 2004 to 2011. He comes from Wales, and is a supporter of the Labour Party.
While the party continued to receive funding from trade unions, the main lift came from individuals and companies, who gave more than £13 million. Labour received highest ever amount of private ...
Jay Lee took ASLEF to the Employment Tribunal to contest his expulsion, under section 174 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, which prohibits unions from excluding or expelling persons wholly or to any extent on the ground that the individual is or was a member of a political party. He was successful in his case ...
This led to the formation of the Labour Party to contest parliamentary elections under the chairmanship of Ramsay MacDonald. [4] In 1900 the ASRS proposed amalgamation with ASLEF [5] but ASLEF proposed federation with the drivers and firemen of the ASRS. [6] A Scheme of Federation was drafted and ASLEF's triennial conference adopted it in 1903. [5]
National rail strikes by train drivers have entered a third summer with a series of “rolling” walk-outs, one region at a time, during May.. Members of the Aslef union are halting thousands of ...
Members of Aslef at Arriva Rail London, Chiltern Railways, Greater Anglia, Great Western, Hull Trains, LNER, Southeastern and West Midlands Trains will walk out on July 30 in a dispute over pay.