Trades Union Congress
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|founded= 1868
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|office= London, England
|people= Gloria Mills, President
Brendan Barber, General Secretary
|website= ww.tuc.org.uk
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The Trade Unions Congress (TUC) is a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of labour unions. There are seventy one affiliated unions with a total of about seven million members.
The TUC's decision-making body is the annual Congress, which takes place in September. Between Congresses decisions are made by the General Council, which meets every two months. The Executive Committee is elected by the Council from its members. The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary, currently Brendan Barber.
The UK Association of Organised Trades, founded in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1866, was the forerunner of the TUC (though efforts to expand local unions into regional or national organisations date back at least forty years earlier; in 1822, John Gast formed a 'Committee of the Useful Classes', sometimes described as an early national trades council).
In early 1975 the TUC issued an invitation to Alexander Shelepin, the former Soviet KGB Chief, to visit Britain. This sparked a debate in the House of Commons during which Conservative Monday Club MP Julian Amery stated that "more and more people are beginning to look upon the TUC as a Communist-penetrated show and this invitation must strengthen that view."
The leading member unions of the TUC formed and still largely fund the British Labour Party, but there is no formal link between the TUC and the party.
List of members
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- The Abbey National Group Union (ANGU) [1]
- ACCORD [2]
- Alliance and Leicester Group Union of Staff (ALGUS) [3]
- AMICUS [4]
- Aspect (Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts) [formerly National Association of Educational Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (NAEIAC)]
- Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) [5]
- Association for College Management (ACM) [6]
- Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) [7]
- Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) [8]
- Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) [9]
- Association of University Teachers (AUT) [10]
B
- Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) [11]
- Britannia Staff Union (BSU) [12]
- British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) [13]
- British Association of Colliery Management - Technical, Energy and Administrative Management (BACM-TEAM) [14]
- British Dietetic Association (BDA) [15]
- British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BOS) [16]
- Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) [17]
C
- Card Setting Machine Tenters Society (CSMTS)
- Ceramic and Allied Trades Union (CATU) [18]
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) [19]
- Communication Workers Union (CWU) [20]
- Community (trade union) [21]
- Community and District Nursing Association (CDNA) [22]
- The Community and Youth Workers' Union (CYWU) [23]
- Connect [24]
D
E
- Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) [25]
- Engineering and Fastener Trade Union (EFTU)
- EQUITY [26]
F
- FDA [27]
- Fire Brigades Union (FBU) [28]
G
H
M
- Musicians' Union (MU) [31]
N
- NAPO [32]
- NATFHE [33]
- National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS)
- National Association of Co-operative Officials (NACO)
- National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) [34]
- National Union of Domestic Appliances and General Operatives (NUDAGO)
- National Union of Journalists (NUJ) [35]
- National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers (NUMAST) [36]
- National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
- National Union of Teachers (NUT) [37]
- Nationwide Group Staff Union (NGSU) [38]
P
- Prison Officers Association (POA) [39]
- Professional Footballers Association (PFA) [40]
- Prospect [41]
- Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) [42]
R
S
- Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union (SWSWU)
- SKISA (Skipton Staff Association)
- Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (SCP) [44]
- Society of Radiographers (SoR) [45]
T
U
- UBAC (Union for Bradford and Bingley Staff and Staff in Associated Companies)
- Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (UCAC)
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) [48]
- Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) [49]
- UNISON [50]
- United Road Transport Union (URTU)
- Unity (ceramics industry workers)
W
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