Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, has won his battle to reduce union influence in the party following the announcement of his intended reforms last summer, in spite of last-minute attempts by the affiliated unions to get agreement to revisit the issue of the party’s link to unions in five years' time. The meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) voted overwhelmingly (28 votes for, two against, one abstention) to back Ed Miliband's far-reaching reforms, whereby unions have to get their members’ consent to donate part of their contributions to the party.
The representatives of the affiliated unions along with some leftwing members had proposed that Miliband’s reforms could be ditched in five years’ time if it emerged that the plans to recruit union political levypayers as affiliated supporters were not working or were putting Labour in financial jeopardy. Indeed, the proposals, due to be phased in, reaching completion in 2019, provide that union members will have to consent for £3 of their political levy to be paid to the Labour in an affiliati
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