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| x British Actors' Equity Association |
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Equity (formerly British Actors' Equity Association) is the trade union for actors, stage managers and models in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers.
Equity was the last of the closed shop unions in the UK....
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| x Transport Salaried Staffs' Association |
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The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for "white collar" workers in the transport industry in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Its head office is adjacent to Euston station, London, it has branch offices...
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| x UNISON |
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UNISON is the second largest trade union in the United Kingdom with over 1.3 million members.
The union was formed in 1993 when three public sector trade unions, the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), the National Union of...
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| x Amicus |
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Amicus was the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union, and the largest private sector union, formed by the merger of Manufacturing Science and Finance, the AEEU (Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union) agreed in 2001, and two smaller...
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| x Trades Union Congress |
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of trade unions. There are fifty-eight affiliated unions with a total of about 6.5 million members,...
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| x Affiliated trade union |
In British politics, the term affiliated trade union refers to a trade union that has an affiliation to the British Labour Party.
The Party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee. Since...
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| x Communication Workers Union |
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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, DSL and postal delivery companies, with 220,000 members. It was formed in 1995, by the merger of the Union of Communication...
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| x Transport and General Workers' Union |
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The Transport and General Workers' Union, also known as the TGWU and the T&G;, was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) - with...
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| x Professional Footballers' Association |
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The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) is the association for professional footballers in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest professional sportsman's association and has 4,000 members.
The first model of the PFA was the...
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| x Fire Brigades Union |
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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom for Wholetime Firefighters (including Officers up to Chief Fire Officer/Firemaster), Retained Duty System (RDS - part time) and Emergency Control Room Staff. It was founded in...
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| x Public and Commercial Services Union |
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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) is the sixth largest trade union in the United Kingdom. Most of its members work in government departments and other public bodies although some work for private companies.
The union was founded in 1998...
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| x Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union |
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The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. It has around 26,500 members who work in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure and interactive media.
BECTU was founded in...
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| x British Air Line Pilots Association |
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The British Air Line Pilots' Association (BALPA) represents well over 75% of all the fixed wing pilots and helicopter aircrew based in the UK - as well as many working overseas. The Association has a membership of over 10,000 professional flight...
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| x The Translators Association |
The Translators Association (TA) is an association representing literary translators in the United Kingdom. The Translators Association is affiliated with the International Federation of Translators (FIT).
The Translators Association (TA) was...
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| x British Dietetic Association |
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The British Dietetic Association (BDA) is a professional association and trade union for dieticians in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1936 and is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
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| x Offshore Industry Liaison Committee |
The Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) is a trade union set up in the United Kingdom in response to the deaths of 167 workers on the Piper Alpha platform on July 6, 1988. Their deaths would be followed by the death of another worker on the...
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| x Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association |
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The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) is a professional body in the UK specifically designed for senior hospital doctors. Its membership has increased dramatically over the last years (2003-2004) possibly due to re-negotiation...
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| x Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union |
The Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union was based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. It was listed in the Guinness Book of Records (2000 edition) as being the smallest trades union in the world with just 10 members. In its last listing to the Trades...
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| x Unity |
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Unity, formerly the Ceramic and Allied Trades Union, is a British trade union, created in the early 19th century to protect pottery workers from dangerous conditions of their field. In 2006 it changed its name to Unity.
The General Secretary of CATU...
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| x Musicians' Union |
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Founded in 1893, the Musicians' Union (MU) of the United Kingdom is the second largest musicians' trade union in the world, representing over thirty thousand musicians, working in all sectors of the music business. As well as negotiating on behalf...
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| x University and College Union |
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The University and College Union (UCU) is a UK trade union formed from the 2006 merger of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE).
The union was formed on 1 June...
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| x Community |
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Community is a British trade union representing workers in the clothing, textiles, footwear, steel and betting industries as well as workers with disabilities. Community has merged or transferred engagements of a number of smaller unions, some of...
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| x First Division Association |
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The FDA is a trade union and professional association for senior civil servants and public service professionals in the United Kingdom founded in 1918. Its 18,000 members include Whitehall policy advisers and senior managers, tax inspectors,...
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| x Solidarity – The Union for British Workers |
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Solidarity – The Union for British Workers is a United Kingdom trade union formed in late 2005 that is closely associated with the British National Party and Third Way think tank. It is named after the Polish trade union Solidarność, and its logo ...
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| x Wales TUC |
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The Wales TUC (Welsh: TUC Cymru) is the co-ordinating body of trade unions in Wales. With over 50 affiliated unions as of 2006, the Wales TUC represents nearly half a million workers trade unionists.
The Wales TUC is an integral part of the Trades...
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| x Workers' Union |
The Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom.
Founded in 1898, in 1919 the Workers' Union joined the National Amalgamated Workers Union, a loose confederation with the Municipal Employees Association and the National Amalgamated Union...
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| x Electricity Supply Staff Association |
The Electricity Supply Staff Association (Dublin) was a trade union in Ireland. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1936.
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| x Burston Strike School |
The Burston Strike School was at the centre of the longest running strike in British history, between 1914 and 1939. Now a museum, it is in the village of Burston in Norfolk, England.
The strike began when teachers at the village's Church of England...
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| x Government Civil Employees' Association |
The Government Civil Employees' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1947.
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| x Scottish Textile Workers' Union |
The Scottish Textile Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1961.
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| x Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union |
The Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1963.
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| x Gibraltar Labour Trades Union |
The Gibraltar Labour Trades Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1963.
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| x Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union |
The Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union (Docks) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1972.
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| x Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union |
The Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1984.
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| x Sheffield Trades and Labour Council |
The Sheffield Trades and Labour Council, usually known as the Sheffield Trades Council, is a labour organisation uniting trade unionists in Sheffield.
The earliest recorded attempt to found an alliance of trade unions in the city is the "Sheffield...
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| x Hospital and Welfare Services Union |
The Hospital and Welfare Services Union was established in 1918 as the Poor Law Workers Trade Union, In 1922 changed its name to Poor Law Officers Union, 1930 to the National Union of County Officers (NUCO) and in 1943 to the Hospital and Welfare...
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| x The Music Producers Guild |
The Music Producers Guild (MPG) (UK) promotes and represents all individuals in the music production and recording professions. It is a professional organisation that embodies collective and individual creative contributions to the production and...
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| x Unite |
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Unite – the Union, known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union,formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union. Unite has two Joint General Secretaries, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley.
Simpson and...
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| x NHS Together |
NHS Together is a campaign alliance of the health service unions in the United Kingdom and staff associations working with the TUC, which opposes any form of competition with, or within, the National Health Service. It is made up of several unions,...
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| x Scottish Professional Footballers' Association |
The Professional Footballers' Association Scotland (PFA Scotland) is the association for professional footballers in Scotland. It was formerly known as the Scottish Professional Footballers' Association (SPFA), but that organisation was dissolved...
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| x Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union |
The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, known as the EETPU was a British trade union formed in 1968 as a union for electricians.
The union started as the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) which was formed in 1889 and what...
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| x Manufacturing, Science and Finance |
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Manufacturing, Science and Finance (or the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union; almost exclusively known as MSF) was a trade union in Britain. Over eighty members of Parliament (primarily members of the Labour Party) were also members of MSF....
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| x Labour Research Department |
The Labour Research Department (LRD) is an independent trade union based research organisation, based in London, that provides information to support trade union activity and campaigns. LRD's publications Labour Research, Bargaining Report, Fact...
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| x Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union |
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The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1847 in Manchester, it is a trade-based union of workers in the food industry.
Soon after foundation, the union began organising nationally and...
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| x SIPTU |
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SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical Union), or in Irish: CSTGT (An Ceardchumann Seirbhísí, Tionsclaíoch, Gairmiúil agus Teicniúil) is Ireland's largest trade union, with around 200,000 members. Most of these members are in the...
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| x Connect |
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Connect is a British trade union representing approximately 20,000 workers in the communications industry. Connect's President is Denise McGuire The general secretary is Adrian Askew. Connect has endorsed a merger with the Prospect union, the union...
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| x Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section |
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The Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (almost exclusively known as TASS) was a British trade union.
In 1970, the Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association (DATA), Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers (AUEFW)...
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| x Tolpuddle Martyrs festival |
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival is an annual free festival held in Dorset, England, which celebrates the memory of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The event is a celebration of trade unionism and labour politics organised by the Dorset Committee of the...
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| x The Abbey National Group Union |
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The Abbey National Group Union is a certified, independent trade union affiliated to the TUC representing workers within the bank Abbey National plc (trading as "Abbey"), a subsidiary of Banco Santander. Its aims are the supporting and representing...
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| x The Players' Union |
The Players' Union (1907) was the popular name for the Association of Football Players’ and Trainers’ Union in the United Kingdom; the original association that became the Professional Footballers' Association.
This was the second attempt at the...
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| x Unity Gazette |
Unity Gazette is a broad left caucus group in the Amicus trade union. It includes activists from the former MSF and AEEU trade unions which merged to form Amicus. The broad left of AEEU was also known as Unity Gazette or Engineering Gazette. Recent...
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| x GMB Union |
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The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 600,000 members. Its members are drawn from many sectors, with particular strength amongst manual workers in local government and the health service. There are organised GMB...
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ACCORD is the trade union for HBOS workers. It has 30,000 members and is affiliated with the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. (HBOS was formerly a bank holding company, formed from the...
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| x Trades Union Certification Officer |
The Trades Union Certification Officer was established in the United Kingdom by Act of Parliament in 1975.
The Certification Officer is responsible for:
The current Certification Officer is David Cockburn, appointed on 1 August 2001 and re-appointed...
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| x Prison Officers Association |
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The Prison Officers Association is a trade union in the United Kingdom "for prison, correctional and secure psychiatric workers." It currently has a membership of 33,500.
The roots of the POA can be traced back to the underground magazine 'Red-Un'...
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| x Congress House |
Congress House is the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress(TUC), a British organisation that represents most of the UK's trade unions.
In 1948 David du Roi Aberdeen won an architectural competition to design the new TUC headquarters building in...
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| x Prospect |
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Prospect is a United Kingdom trade union which represents engineers, managers, specialists and scientists in both the public and private sectors. It was formed on 1 November 2001 by the merger of the trade unions the Institute of Professionals...
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| x NIPSA |
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NIPSA or the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance is a trade union based in Northern Ireland. It is the largest white collar trade union in Northern Ireland. It is organised into two distinct groupings, the Civil Service Group and the Public...
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| x Nationwide Group Staff Union |
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The Nationwide Group Staff Union (NGSU) is an independent trade union in the United Kingdom. It has a membership of over 12,000 and represents workers within the Nationwide Building Society and its associated companies.
The NGSU was formed in 1990...
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| x United Road Transport Union |
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The United Road Transport Union (URTU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. It has a membership of over 17,000 and represents road haulage drivers.
The URTU was first registered as the United Carters Association, and was subsequently named the...
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