After the anti-sweatshop campaigns of the late 1990s, all three joined the Fair Labour Association, which sends inspectors, unannounced, to check on working conditions in factories.
It was one of the few times an oil sands project received such a designation, which also allows the company to reach a collective agreement with one union--in this case, the Christian Labour Association of Canada, whose members earn less and pay smaller dues than others--and apply it to workers from other unions.
The Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Robin Cook were to blame for having advised the Queen to bestow the honour, said Arthur Titherington, Chairman of the Japanese Labour Camps Survivors Association.
The referendum committee organising the vote is made up of the Dialectic Society, Politics Society, Labour Club, Scottish Nationalist Association, Liberal Democrats, International Socialist Group, Conservative and Unionist Party and the Feminist Society.
Sir Jeremy Beecham, Labour's leader on the association, claimed local authorities spent too much time reporting to the government, rather than their residents.
Ms Yeo, who is also the leader of the Labour group in Ashford, president of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), and the vice-chair of Labour's National Executive Committee, said it would give "communities a real chance to engage and say how they want policing delivered in their areas".
Graham Lane, Labour education chairman of the Local Government Association, said talks with Local Education Authorities would only happen if teachers were not on strike.
Mr Blair's comments, at a lunch of the Periodical Publishers' Association, come in response to Labour MPs urging a political change of direction after last week's election setbacks.
In fact, he led for Labour nationally on fire issues at the Local Government Association and frequently travelled to London.
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As Thomas Chan, of the Chinese Takeaway Association, explains, more recent arrivals filled the resulting labour gap.
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"The officers of this association cannot possibly condone his decision to ask for the Labour whip, " it said in a statement.
Mr Miliband had been clear he did not believe Labour was right on the issue, she told the Airport Operators Association.
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In other reaction, The Federation of Small Businesses said the plan would encourage more women to return to work and boost labour market "flexibility", while the Twins and Multiple Birth Association called it a "step in the right direction".
But Labour's Lord Harris of Haringey, a former director of the association of health councils in England and Wales, said the government had originally proposed that Healthwatch would be an independent body.
Politically too, he does not fit the usual Labour template, having been, briefly, a member of the Oxford University Conservative Association at the same time as William Hague.
The team identified a clear and significant association between investments in human capital in each period and a country's subsequent growth and labour productivity.
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The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers said on Monday that 53% of its members voted Labour in 1997, but only 42% would do so next time.
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