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Weingarten is closer to the Building Trades union than Trump may realize.

This is unchanged from a study by the Trades Union Congress reported in February.

Sean McGarvey, president of the North America's Building Trades Union, was beaming after he left.

FRANCES O'GRADY, the head of Britain's Trades Union Congress, threw down a gauntlet on September 10th.

"Underpayment of the minimum wage is probably rising," says Paul Sellers of the Trades Union Congress.

They are nurses, people in the construction trades, union workers, as well as white-collar professionals.

Instead, technology has led to unpredictable, more intensive and longer hours at work, the Trades Union Congress said.

Key to what constitutes sexual harassment is how a specific behaviour is received, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said.

In Britain, black university graduates are paid 23% less per hour than white graduates, according to the Trades Union Congress.

"Together, we are going to rebuild our nation," Trump said at the North America's Building Trades Union (NABTU) legislative conference.

Speaking to union activists, McDonnell said the Trades Union Congress (TUC) should mobilize to get people out onto the streets.

The Building Trades union endorsed Clinton in November and the Laborers' International Union of North America endorsed Clinton in December.

United Auto Workers union president Dennis Williams earlier this month defended the building trades union leaders who met with the Republican president.

That's according to Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, an organization in the United Kingdom representing labor unions.

"With prices rising faster, real pay growth is now slowing down," Frances O'Grady, the head of Britain's Trades Union Congress umbrella group, said.

Labor organizations like the Malaysian Trades Union Congress argued for the protection of jobs for locals, rather than employing foreigners at lower wages.

Sean McGarvey is President of the North American Building Trades Union and Mike Sommers is President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.

Unions will fight to stay in, emphasizing jobs and workers' rights, Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, told Reuters in an interview.

In 2016 in the U.K., the number of people regularly working from home increased 7.7 percent to 1.639 million, according to the Trades Union Congress.

"The squeeze on cash-strapped families continues to grip," Trades Union Congress General Secretary Frances O'Grady said, asking the government to do more to lift pay.

" An umbrella federation of most trade unions in England and Wales, The Trades Union Congress (TUC), took to Twitter to express anger and call for "radical change.

LONDON — Black workers are facing a "massive pay gap" that widens with higher qualifications, according to a new analysis published Monday by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Frances O'Grady, the head of the Trades Union Congress, accused Mrs May of backing down from her promise to tackle corporate excess and put workers on boards.

Frances O'Grady, above, the head of the Trades Union Congress, argues that workers should be able to reap the benefits of increased productivity from technology and automation.

Top officials at the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress said Thursday that Britain faces a "national emergency" if politicians allow that to happen.

"Such an unjust situation must be eradicated," K. Veeriah, an official at the Malaysian Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group which represents workers, said in a separate statement.

Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said her organisation would back a second vote on Brexit if May failed to win a deal that supported workers.

Britain's Trades Union Congress said on Monday the number of children growing up in low-income households is set to be 50 percent higher this year than in 2010.

Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said her organization would back a second vote on Brexit if May failed to win a deal that supported workers.

A new report from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in association with the Everyday Sexism Project, finds that sexual harassment is endemic for women in workplaces across the country.

Speaking at the Trades Union Congress on September 11th, Mr McDonnell launched his own version of the Swedish scheme, with large businesses compelled to give shares to worker-owned funds.

The powerful health care union 1199 S.E.I.U. declined to comment on its position, as did other influential labor groups such as the Hotel Trades Council and the building trades union.

The pivotal moment came in 1988, when the European Commission's president, Jacques Delors, promised the Trades Union Congress that Europe's single market would be buttressed by tougher labour and social regulations.

"Our country is facing a national emergency," the main British business and trade union groupings, the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress, said in a rare joint statement.

Frances O'Grady, the head of the Trades Union Congress, told BBC Radio on Tuesday that the revised plans would not help public frustration with what are perceived as excessive pay packets.

Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC) is pushing for the whole country to move to a four-day week by the end of the century, a drive supported by the opposition Labour party.

Sean McGarvey, president of the North America's Building Trades Union, has reinforced these concerns, arguing that renewable energy jobs can't replace oil and gas sector jobs in terms of income and quality.

"It will take until 2018 for average earnings just to get back to the real value they held in 2008 - 10 years of pay going backwards," Trades Union Congress chief Frances O'Grady said.

More than one million low-income households in Britain are left struggling with debt problems as a result of years of stagnant wage growth, according to a report from the Trades Union Congress.

"It's a social experiment that has been a complete disaster," the official, Mark Fairhurst, the chairman of the Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers said in a phone interview.

"I believe that in this century, we can win a four-day working week, with decent pay for everyone," Frances O'Grady, general secretary of British labor union organization Trades Union Congress predicted in September.

Young women between 18 and 24 fared worse than other age groups, with two-thirds experiencing workplace sexual harassment, according to the report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and women's rights group Everyday Sexism.

On January 11th the constitutional court is expected to authorise a ballot sought by Italy's biggest trades union federation on rescinding crucial elements of the last government's proudest achievement: a labour reform passed in 2014.

The Trades Union Congress, Britain's largest union group, said its research showed a worker on a zero-hours contract earns 7.25 pounds per hour, as a median, compared with 11.05 pounds for a typical worker.

The election of the former trades union boss turned businessman was greeted by clapping from a packed public gallery and opposition benches, including the far-left Economic Freedom Front, which had a fractious relationship with Zuma.

"There is nothing inevitable about technology changing the world of work for the worse," said Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, which represents a total of 5.5 million British workers from 48 unions.

The North America's Building Trades Union, The California State Teachers' Retirement System, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund — which hold shares in the company — have all sent letters to Barra expressing "concern" over the strike.

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Drivers working for Britain's Southern Rail have agreed to suspend strike action next week which would have brought the network to a standstill once again, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said on Tuesday.

Black workers with temporary jobs in UK increased between 2011 and 2016, while the proportion of white workers on these contracts held steady over the same period, according to analysis of official data by the Trades Union Congress.

The Trades Union Congress umbrella group said the change represented progress but existing rules meant some lower-earners whose pay does not meet the sick pay threshold would still go to work when ill, endangering colleagues and clients.

The uncertainty facing four million expatriate European and British citizens has become intolerable, said the heads of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Trades Union Congress (TUC) - who often sit on opposite sides of the corporate negotiating table.

The Trades Union Congress used the march to call for a higher minimum wage, improved job security and investment in public services as it released research saying that wages were still worth less in real terms than before the financial crisis.

The news gets even worse for women who become mothers before the age of 33, who, according to analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Britain's largest union group - earn 15 percent less than their female colleagues who haven't had children.

"Our country is facing a national emergency," the Confederation of British Industry, a major employers group, and the Trades Union Congress umbrella group said on Thursday in a rare joint letter to May, urging her to avoid a no-deal Brexit.

" At the Trades Union Congress (TUC) — a national trade union in the UK — conference, members voted unanimously to call for it to be made illegal for employers to impose "sexist dress codes which force women to wear high heels at work.

But the measure was criticized by the Trades Union Congress umbrella group for not helping self-employed workers, such as Deliveroo's 15,000 couriers, and those in the gig economy who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay.

"I believe that in this century, we can win a four-day working week, with decent pay for everyone," Frances O'Grady, the head of the Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group, said in a speech at the labor federation's annual conference.

Top officials at the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress said Thursday that Britain faces a "national emergency" if politicians allow the country to crash out of the European Union without a transitional deal to protect trade.

"This is the Labour movement saying we are voting to remain in the European Union next week," he said at the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) which groups 51 unions representing almost 6 million of the United Kingdom's 65 million people.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Trades Union Congress will support a second referendum on a Brexit deal if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to get a deal with the European Union that can help the country's workforce, General Secretary Frances O'Grady said on Sunday.

Since the charges were first filed against him in 2013, Hall has garnered significant support from international trade union organizations, with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) of England and Wales successfully lobbying the UK Labour Party to raise his case in the British parliament.

"I'm very clear that people are angry and if we don't get that pay rise then the TUC (Trades Union Congress) is certainly ready to assist our unions and coordinate as we always do," Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, the union umbrella group.

Clinton's campaign considered having the former secretary of state address the Keystone issue in a private meeting with a building trades union, then immediately roll out a fact sheet on her infrastructure proposals and publish an opinion article on the topic, the leaked emails show.

During his allotted time, Pascrell told of one of his constituents named David a 50-year-old building trades union worker who was injured in a car crash in 2008 — detailing how the bill would mean David could no longer deduct $15,000 in medical expenses.

Word of warning: In a rare joint statement, the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress said that a no-deal Brexit "would be felt by generations to come" and called the current situation "a national emergency," with the risk of that outcome soaring.

"It's completely staggering to think that this is the only service of its type given that research has found that as many as one in two women experience sexual harassment in the workplace," Watson said in a statement, citing data collected by the Trades Union Congress in 2016.

On top of her day job as head of campaigns at the Public and Commercial Services union, she sits on both the Trades Union Congress LGBT and race relations committees, as well as the Board for Justice for Gay Africans, and works voluntarily as executive director of UK Black Pride.

" Frances O'Grady, general secretary of Britain's main labor organization, the Trades Union Congress, lamented she had met May only once, "and I have in the past reflected on the fact that I've met (Germany's) Angela Merkel, the president of Ireland and various others many more times than our own prime minister.

While that figure includes deaths that occurred on construction projects not strictly related to the World Cup—such as hotels, subways, an airport, and sewage systems—the International Trades Union Confederation considers many of those projects part of the broader infrastructure boost necessary to get Doha prepared to host the World Cup.

" Even Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (an organization in the U.K. representing trade labor unions), voiced her belief in a shorter work week in September, saying in a speech in England, "I believe that in this century, we can win a four-day working week, with decent pay for everyone.

A full list of members is available in the Trades Union Congress's Report of the 1921 Annual Trades Union Congress. Additional details are from W. J. Davis, History of the British Trades Union Congress.

He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in 1947, serving until 1965, and became the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1959.Report of the Annual Trades Union Congress (1982), p.338 From 1952, he also served as Chairman of the London Trades Council.

The Electrical Trades Union was a trade union representing electrical technicians and engineers in Ireland. The union was founded in 1923 when the electrical section of the Irish Engineering Industrial Union split away. Initially, it was named the Electrical Trades Union (Dublin), but became the Electrical Trades Union (Ireland) in 1925. It joined the Irish Trades Union Congress, then joined the group of unions which formed the rival Congress of Irish Unions.

Angela Tuckett, The Scottish Trades Union Congress: the first 80 years, 1897-1977, pp.130, 155Chris Wrigley, Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe 1917-1920, p.169 In 1920, Shaw served as chairman of the Scottish Trades Union Congress and, when the British Trades Union Congress held its annual conference in Glasgow, he served as its minutes secretary.Angela Tuckett, The Scottish Trades Union Congress: the first 80 years, 1897-1977, p.

He was elected to its Parliamentary Committee more often than not, and served as its chairman in 1874 and 1883.Trades Union Congress, "Important Details of Past Congresses", Annual Report of the 1925 Trades Union Congress, pp.4-5Trades Union Congress, "Death of Mr A. W. Bailey", Annual Report of the 1886 Trades Union Congress, p.

GLATUC logo Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils (GLATUC)Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils web site is the largest County Association of Trades (Union) Councils in the Uk and covers the Greater London area. As the official Trades Union Congress body for London GLATUC seeks to co-ordinate activity by Trades (Union) Councils across the capital and works with individual unions and other organisations on a range of campaigns and activities. It is part of the national Trades Union Congress.

In 2012, he was elected as the union's general secretary. He also represents the union on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and the General Council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress is a national trade union center in Guyana. It was founded in 1941 as the British Guiana Trades Union Council. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

In 1974, the British Electrical Trades Union became part of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, and the Irish union took the opportunity to drop the disambiguator from its own name, officially becoming the "Electrical Trades Union" for this first time. In 2001, the union merged with the National Engineering and Electrical Trades Union to form the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union.

The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (), abbreviated MTUC, is a national trade union centre in Malaysia. It was formed in 1949 and was originally known as the Malayan Trades Union Council. It then changed its name to the Malayan Trades Union Congress in 1958, and then to its current name with the formation of Malaysia. MTUC is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

23 In 1980, the union had a membership just over 6,000, but by 1994 this had declined to only 928 members.Peter Carter and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions: Volume 6, p.203 Facing a dramatic drop in membership, it left the Trades Union Congress in 1987,Trades Union Congress, Report of 119th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.28 but subsequently rejoined.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: E. W. Bussey", Annual Report of the 1957 Trades Union Congress, p.311 In 1941, the ETU's longstanding General Secretary, Jimmy Rowan, retired. Bussey was elected as his replacement, and also took over Rowan's place on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. In his obituary, Walter Citrine noted that "he never pandered to the more ardently militant section" of the union.

In October 1969, he succeeded Charles Butler as the union's general secretary.Labour Research, vols.58-59, p.175 In 1973, Grieve was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC),Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Doug Grieve", Annual Report of the 1996 Trades Union Congress on which he was part of a left-wing group, including Rodney Bickerstaffe, Ken Cameron, Bill Keys, Alan Sapper and Jim Slater.

The Manchester Trades Union Council brings together trade union branches in Manchester in England.

The NUTGW merged into the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union in 1991.

On his way home, he visited the British Trades Union Congress in Sheffield, England.

His funeral was attended by trades union officials from all over the United States.

He also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress for many years, and was its representative to the American Federation of Labour in 1927.Report of Proceedings at the 72nd Annual Trades Union Congress, p.6 He retired in 1937.

He was also very active at the Trades Union Congress until his retirement in 1986.

The Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) was a union federation covering the island of Ireland.

In September 2018, Serwotka was elected as the President of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

In 1907/1908, he also served on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress.

Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich was married to the senior journalist and trades union officer, Eberhard Heinrich.

He joined the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades (NUB), and began working full-time for the union in 1937.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1983 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.356 In 1948, Owen was elected as general secretary of the NUB, and also to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He retired in 1953, and wrote Ironmen, a history of the union.

Alfred Evans (1851 or 1852 - 17 August 1918) was a British trade union organiser. Evans was general secretary of the Printers' and Stationers' Warehousemen, Cutters and Assistants' Union from its formation in 1899.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr A. Evans", Annual Report of the 1918 Trades Union Congress, p.139 He took the union through a series of mergers; notably, the National Bookfolders' and Kindred Trades Union joined, giving the union a significant female membership.

Demand for short term employees remains high and the market supports up to 20 high street recruitment agencies at any given time. Peterborough Trades Council, formed in 1898, is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.About PTUC Peterborough Trades Union Council (Retrieved 30 May 2015).

B.C. Roberts, The Trades Union Congress, 1868-1921. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958; pg. 18.

Records of the AWCS are kept in the London Metropolitan University's Trades Union Congress Library Collections.

Early on Brenner decided to devote himself to recreating the trades unions, which had been destroyed under the Hitler government. In May 1945 he was a co-founder of the General Trades Union in the territory which by the end of 1946 had been relaunched as the state of Lower Saxony ("Allgemeinen Gewerkschaft Niedersachsen"). In 1947 he became chairman of the union's Metals Division ("Wirtschaftsgruppe Metall"), and thereby a paid trades union official. The structure of the General Trades Union reflected a compromise for the creation of a single unified trades union, free from political and religious, but also free of professional/vocational distinctions.

Changes to the groups and numbers of seats were made over time, as the number of workers represented in different industries fluctuated,Trades Union Congress, Report of Proceedings at the 83rd Annual Trades Union Congress, p.299 but the system survived intact until the early 1980s.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr H. N. Harrison", Annual Report of the 1948 Trades Union Congress, p.315 Harrison was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1937, serving until his death. He also acted as the TUC's delegate to the American Federation of Labour in 1943. He served for two years as President of the CSEU, and was very active in the formation of the World Federation of Trade Unions.

He was also backing the policies of the Revolutionary Trades Union Opposition ("Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition" / RGO)) movement.

He also spent some time as a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr John Inglis", Annual Report of the 1912 Trades Union Congress, p.86 Inglis represented his union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), serving on the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC for fifteen years, and as its chairman in 1882/3. While on the committee, he played a leading role in campaigning for the Trade Union Act 1871, which formally legalised trade unions in the UK, the Trade Union Act 1876, and the Fatal Accident Inquiry Act.

Morrissey's interest in trade unionism began when he was working as a labourer with Great Southern Railways. He left after a dispute with his foreman in 1915 and joined the staff of a national insurance society. Almost at once he began organising trades union in South Tipperary. Rapidly advancing in the trade union movement, he was soon on the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union executive, a delegate to the Irish Trades Union Congress and fraternal delegate to the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

The Ceramic and Allied Trades Union (CATU) was a trade union representing pottery workers in the United Kingdom.

Otto Franke (15 September 1877 – 12 December 1953) was a German trades union pioneer, politician and peace activist.

He became a trade union official and was eventually Secretary of the New South Wales Clothing Trades Union.

He was also Deputy Director and subsequently Director of Community Development at the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).

Ahmed Tlili (أحمد التليلي) (16 October 1916 - 25 June 1967) was a Tunisian trades union leader and politician.

In 1968, it merged with the Electrical Trades Union to form the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union.

The President of the Trades Union Congress is a prominent but largely honorary position in British trade unionism.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: George Thorneycroft", Annual Report of the 1975 Trades Union Congress, p.343 In 1947, the union's general secretary, Charles Gallie, retired. The assistant general secretary, Percy Heady, was close to retirement himself, and so Thorneycroft stood for the vacant post. However, he was defeated by Fred Bostock.

4, p.249 The society was established in 1930, and within a year had 350 members. However, membership gradually declined as the industry contracted, falling to 250 members by 1968, and 100 in 1979. It joined the Trades Union Congress in 1968,Annual Report of the 1968 Trades Union Congress, p.

Employees of Income are represented by the Singapore Insurance Employees' Union, an affiliate of the National Trades Union Congress.

In December 2016, an agreement was reached between the Electrical Trades Union of Australia and CUB resolving the dispute.

The union was formed in July 1968 with the merger of the Electrical Trades Union and the Plumbing Trades Union to form the Electrical, Electronic & Telecommunications Union & Plumbing Trades Union, which became the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications & Plumbing Union in 1973. Archives of government papers show that "a period of severe industrial unrest" began in September 1970. Local authority manual workers wanted a £30 minimum weekly wage. A Committee of Inquiry recommended a 14.5 per cent increase, but the government considered it to be too high.

Kirby was the Northern Territory Organiser for the Electrical Trades Union of Australia Queensland and NT Branch before entering politics.

The Hull and District Trades Union Council brings together trade unions based in and around Kingston-upon-Hull, in England.

Tan was also the Secretary- General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Deputy Chairman of the People's Association.

He was surprised to be elected to the post, but it did not change his view that the TUC had done little for Scotland, and he worked with John Keir to establish the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).Steve Lawton, 100 years of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, New Worker However, when the STUC was actually established, he was unhappy with its structure, and unsuccessfully argued for a delay in creating it.Angela Tuckett, The Scottish Trades Union Congress, p.55 In 1908, Mallinson was appointed as Chief Attendance Officer to Edinburgh Council.

This was about to merge with the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries, and he was appointed as the first general secretary of the new union, the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union, taking up the post at the start of 1941.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: F. C. Woods", Annual Report of the 1961 Trades Union Congress, p.292 While leader of the union, Woods represented it at the Trades Union Congress, serving on its Local Government Committee. Under his leadership, membership of the union increased from 20,000 to 53,000.

The engineers' union was affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1935.

He was also an organiser for the Electrical Trades Union of Australia (ETU) and a councillor on the Sutherland Shire council.

In 1971, it merged with the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives to form the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union.

Evans also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and the executive of the International Transport Workers' Federation.

The Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union was based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. 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 Union Certification Officer it was down to nine members - six male and three female.

Among those who opposed the party's adherence to the Stalinist hard line, August Enderle's profile was higher than most because of his contributions to the party publications The Red Flag and Inprecor. In addition, in 1927 he published a book, "Die Gewerkschaftsbewegung. Ein Leitfaden für proletarische Gewerkschaftsarbeit" ("The trades union movement. A manual for proletarian trades union work").

Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1900 Trades Union Congress, pp.94-95 The Parliamentary Committee was replaced by the General Council in 1921, and the system continued. There were still rare occasions where the Chair did not become President. Margaret Bondfield, who was elected as Chair in 1923, resigned to accept a government post before becoming President.

"General Council Report" (1996), Trades Union Congress Wilson was appointed as joint general secretary of BETA, serving until his retirement in 1987.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Trades Union Council is a trades council bringing together trade unionists in Newcastle upon Tyne, in northern England.

In 1930, the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress founded the National Workers' Sports Association as a counterweight to the BWSF.

A charitable trust founded by the trades union GEW with the mission to use education to fight child labour ("Bildung statt Kinderarbeit").

The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress was the leading body of the British trade union movement from 1871 until 1921.

Cotter at the 1922 Trades Union Congress Joseph Patrick Cotter (10 May 1877 – 8 May 1944) was a British trade union leader.

The Building and Allied Trades' Union (BATU) is a trade union representing workers in the construction industry and furniture trade in Ireland.

Belfast Trades Council, also known as Belfast & District Trades Union Council, brings together trade unionists in and around Belfast in Northern Ireland.

The Martyrs' Tree, a sycamore at Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, is regarded by some as the birthplace of the British trades union movement.

Although continuity prevailed on the political level, the war caused social upheaval, which laid the foundation for the first trades union in Luxembourg.

Eugen Ochs (4 April 1905 - 17 November 1990) was a communist politician and trades union leader.Eugen Ochs: Ein Arbeiter im Widerstand. Stuttgart 1984.

HDB employees are organised under a house union, HDB Staff Union (HDBSU). The union is an affiliate of the National Trades Union Congress.

Employees of NTUC FairPrice are represented by the Food, Drinks and Allied Workers' Union (FDAWU), an affiliate of the National Trades Union Congress.

Between Social Democracy and the free trades union movement in West Germany there existed an "organic solidarity" firmly entrenched in shared underlying interests.

In 1921 he was taken to Berlin by Jacob Walcher who appointed him as trades union editor team for Die Rote Fahne ("The Red Flag"), the leading party newspaper at the time. During his time in Berlin he also worked, till 1928, for the trades union department of the party central committee. During 1922/23 his work for Die Rote Fahne was interrupted when he represented the German party on the Moscow based executive of the Red International of Labor Unions ("Красный интернационал профсоюзов" / RILU). He also contributed on trades union matters to Inprecor, the international magazine of the Comintern.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr Arthur Shaw", Annual Report of the 1939 Trades Union Congress, p.273 Shaw was appointed to various government committees, including the Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Shaw was also active at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), serving on the General Council of the TUC, and in 1930 was its delegate to the American Federation of Labour. He was also prominent in the International Federation of Textile Workers, and in 1938, when Tom Shaw died, Shaw was appointed as acting secretary of the International Federation.

He also founded "Die Arbeit" (literally, "Work"), a trades union monthly news magazine which appeared between 1924 and 1933. Between 1922 and 1933, as leader of Germany's trades union movement, Leipart earned plaudits for the skill and patience with which he was able to integrate hitherto opposed groupings and works councils. He advanced in practical ways the concept of economic democracy and he was an eloquent advocate for trades union autonomy and responsibility. He was never a man for confrontation, preferring to apply compromise and flexibility in response to changing political currents and shifting power balances.

Inglis remained secretary of the union until his retirement in 1907.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr J. Thomson, OBE, JP", Annual Report of the 1919 Trades Union Congress, p.205 Although it remained small, under his leadership it began organising workers across the UK, and was renamed as the Associated Blacksmiths' Society.John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.

Members in middle management (Higher Executive Officer and Senior Executive Officers) join Keystone.Keystone The FDA is an affiliate of the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Wales TUC and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions but is not affiliated to the Labour Party or any other political party. The FDA is also affiliated to Public Services International.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Kate Manicom", Report of Proceedings at the 70th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.246 She also attended the 1921 International Congress of Working Women, and was a delegate to the International Labour Organization. From 1924, Manicom worked as a postal clerk, although she remained active in the trade union movement. She died on 27 October 1937.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Miss Dorothy Evans, MA, Barrister-at-Law", Annual Report of the 1944 Trades Union Congress, p.190 In her spare time, Evans studied to become a barrister, and was called to the bar in 1925. Despite this, she remained a trade union official. Also active in the Labour Party, she stood unsuccessfully in the 1930 Paddington South by-election.

Grahame Smith (born 8 January 1959) is a Scottish former trade unionist, who served as General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).

He also was involved in running a family business organising international conferences, interpretation, translation, microphone hire and sound systems, alongside his trades union work.

In 1969, he became General Secretary of the UK-wide NUTGW, and also served on the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress.

In 1976, he received the National Trades Union Congress' May Day Gold Medal of Honour. There is a lane in Clementi named after him.

The Gibraltar Labour Trades Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1963.

Bath branch of the union on 19 May 1900 The Plumbing Trades Union (PTU) was a trade union representing plumbers in Britain and Ireland.

Support came from the SPD, from the mainstream (i.e. non-communist) trades union confederation and from the increasingly politicised associations and groupings of sports clubs.

Frances Lorraine O'Grady (born 9 November 1959) is the General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), the first woman to hold the position.

Georg Leber (7 October 1920 – 21 August 2012) was a German Trades Union leader and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

He was employed by the Trades Union Congress from 1970 to 1973 and the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union from 1973 to 1985.

In 1923, Grönsfelder was appointed to the party's Trades Union Commission and, at the same time, elected a member of the national party executive committee.

AFA (LHR) is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in the United Kingdom and organises among United Airlines cabin crew based at London Heathrow Airport.

Geddes became authoritative and knowledgeable about the extent and scope of industrial disputes. In 1955, he served as President of the Trades Union Congress.Details of Past Congresses , Trades Union Congress Geddes was Chairman of Polyglass Ltd. Appointed a Commander of the OBE in 1950, In 1957, Geddes was offered a Knighthood by the Macmillan government, he accepted, and then promptly resigned his position in UPW.

In the same year he established a basic trades union at the company which he affiliated to the French Trades Union Confederation (CGT). This was the start of his career in Tunisian trades unionism. He took on a range of union responsibilities locally and in the region and, later, in national administration, working with . As a result, he was dismissed from his job in 1939.

He was also President of the International Metal Workers' Federation. Douglass also chaired the British Productivity Council, and served as the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1967.Details of Past Congresses , Trades Union Congress On retirement he was created a life peer on 22 September 1967, taking the title Baron Douglass of Cleveland, of Cleveland in the County of York.Life PeeragesDod's Parliamentary Companion, Vol.

His brief parliamentary career had never been more than a sideline. The real focus for Leipart's talents and interests remained the trades union movement. Alongside his friend and comrade Carl Legien he played a pivotal role during the war and the ensuing period of social and political turmoil in the creation of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund ("General German Trades Union Federation" / ADGB), an amalgamation of 52 trade unions and other similar groupings. The drafting of the ADGB's statutes and the accompanying "programme of guidelines" ("... Richtlinien"), designed to place the movement ever more firmly on the path towards a free trades union movement, were chiefly his work.

Report of Annual Trades Union Congress, vol.124, p.347 In 1964, he beat Enoch Humphries by 2,000 votes to become General Secretary of the union.

Industrial Relations officer and Head of Research with the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) and later, European officer of the Trades Union Congress in Brussels.

Since then, its membership has declined in line with the Scottish trade union movement. In 2003, it was officially renamed as the Aberdeen Trades Union Council.

Nautilus International is an international trades union and professional association representing seafarers and allied workers, which is based in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

In 2000, it merged with the Caretakers' Union, the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union, and the Technical and Special Trades Union, to form Service Union United.

On leaving Cambridge he worked as an economist for the Trades Union Congress in 1964–1965. He then became Chief Mathematician at Hawker Siddeley in Coventry.

In 1885, Shipton was elected as the Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the post which later became the General Secretary.

From 1929 to 1930 he was president of the Irish Labour Party and the Irish Trades Union Congress. In 1935 he founded the Educational Building Society.

Ellem, B. L. (1986). "A History of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union". Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of History, University of Wollongong. . retrieved 11 October 2011.

She has been a member of the National Executive Committee since 1990. Moffat is also a member of UNISON and the Trades Union Congress's General Purposes Committee.

The National Trades' Union was the first federation of labor unions in the United States. It was established in 1834, but collapsed during the Panic of 1837.

In 1970, Howell was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress; he served until his retirement, in September 1974. He died the following year.

He was President of the Trades Union Congress in 1994. His union career tracked a decline in union membership. In 1955, the NUR had over 350,000 members.

Enoch Humphries (25 September 1922 – 1 July 2009) was a Scottish trade unionist and President of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

Following the United States invasion of Grenada, Brown called for the Trades Union Congress to back a boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Nancy Adam (23 Feb 1888 - 6 May 1982) was a Scottish trade union official who served as the first woman officer of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Peter Barberis et al, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, p.734Arthur Mitchell, Labour in Irish politics, 1890-1930, p.189 Following the 1945 split in the Irish Trades Union Congress, the Dublin Council split into the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and the Dublin Trades' Union Council. The two reunited in 1960, and the reunited organisation played a leading role in the Dublin Housing Action Committee.

The General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress became chief permanent officer of the TUC, and a major figure in the British trade union movement. The system was successfully implemented by Fred Bramley and Walter Citrine. By 1927 the TUC had the making of a trade union bureaucracy similar to the civil service.Allen, 1960 During the First World War, the Trades Union Congress generally supported the aims of the British Empire.

Again he found himself entrusted with the youth department. Bleicher's work with the young trades unionists was extraordinarily successful. As early as 1946 he was able to organise a youth trades union conference in Stuttgart, which was attended by around 280 participants representing, together, approximately 4,000 apprentices. The beginning of 1948 saw the launch, with Bleicher's backing, of the first separate newspaper for the younger generation of trades union members.

They had been imprisoned by the British for their radical union activism. Later, some of these men join the more moderate wing of the PAP. Devan Nair went on to build the modern trades union movement in Singapore, the National Trades Union Congress. Consequently, Indians in Singapore tended to align themselves, both individually and as groups, with parties advocating specific political or economic ideologies, rather than along purely racial lines.

She also joined the local branch of the book workers' trades union ("Buchbinderverband"). In 1913 she attended a training at the Trades Union Academy in Berlin, in order to develop her political and organisational skills,Christl Wickert: Unsere Erwählten, 1986, S. 42. and participated in various regional assemblies and congresses and national party conferences. Between 1914 and 1918, during the First World War, Eichler undertook war welfare work.

The union adopted its final name in 1869, joining the Trades Union Congress in 1875. It was also an early member of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. By the early 1910s, it had more than 7,500 members. In 1920, the union merged with the Friendly Society of Iron Founders of England, Ireland and Wales and the Amalgamated Society of Coremakers of Great Britain to form the National Union of Foundry Workers.

A ballot saw the union's headquarters move to London, and membership began increasing rapidly. In 1939, it was able to make the general and financial secretary position full-time again, and by 1949 it had a membership of 2,500. In 1935, the union affiliated with the Scottish Trades Union Congress, with the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1945, and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions in 1948.

84 By this time, he was a member of the executive committee of the International Transport Workers' Federation.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Fred Bostock", Annual Report of the 1948 Trades Union Congress, p.314 In September 1947, Bostock was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and in December, he was elected as general secretary of the RCA. However, he died suddenly in July the following year.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: David Lambert", Annual Report of the 1967 Trades Union Congress, p.436 While in post, he found time to write two novels based in the area in the 1950s: He Must So Sleep and No Time For Sleeping. In 1958, Lambert was elected as assistant general secretary of the union. General secretary Tommy Graham died suddenly in 1960, and Lambert became acting general secretary.

Trades Union Congress. 1959. p. 210 In Tanganyika Barrett managed to organise a union, the Tanganyika Sisal and Plantation Workers Union (TSPWU).Woodworkers, Painters & Buildingworkers Journal. 1960. p.

The Grenada Trades Union Council (GTUC) is the national trade union center for Grenada. It was formed in 1955, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

It primarily represented female workers and was briefly affiliated to the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1911. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1951.

The Trades Union Certification Officer was established in the United Kingdom by Act of Parliament in 1975. They head the Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers' Associations.

Glasspole was also, from 1939 to 1947, General Secretary of the Trades Union Advisory Council and, from 1947 to 1952, General Secretary of the Jamaican Trade Union Congress.

At the 2014 Scottish Trades Union Congress annual conference, Lamont outlined plans to establish a Workers' Charter, saying she would work with the SNP government to achieve this.

When he finally settled in West Germany in 1957, he did so without giving up his right of abode in Switzerland. During the 1940s and 1950s he had built up excellent contacts with the Swiss trades union movement, and this opened the door to the German Trade Union Confederation ("Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund" / DGB) which emerged after 1949 and the lifting of the Nazi ban on trades union activity. In 1957, at the instigation of Otto Brenner, Walter Fabian was appointed editor in chief of the DGB's Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte ("Trades Union Monthly"/ GMH) publication, a role which he held till 1970. Between 1958 and 1964 he also chaired the Deutsche Journalistinnen- und Journalisten-Union (Journalists' Union).

Trade unionism is a powerful force in the politics, economy, and culture of Senegal, and was one of the earliest trades union movements to form in Francophone West Africa.

The General Council of the Trades Union Congress is an elected body which is responsible for carrying out the policies agreed at the annual British Trade Union Congresses (TUC).

In 2010, Tay received the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (i.e. Public Service Star in Malay). He is one of the several Assistant Secretary-Generals of the National Trades Union Congress.

Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1920 Trades Union Congress, pp.20-21 It was particularly successful in recruiting toymakers, and by the end of the war, around 2,000 of its members worked in the sector.Kenneth D. Brown, The British Toy Business: A History Since 1700, p.94 At the start of 1921, the union merged with the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees, forming the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

536 Lowthian rapidly rose through the union, attending its conference from 1936, and joining the executive council in 1940. He became a full-time union official in 1945, as a divisional secretary, and was elected as the union's general secretary in 1950. He served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for 21 years, and served as President of the TUC in 1964.Report of the 118th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.

5 In 1883, he was one of three British delegates to the International Trades Union Congress in Paris, alongside Henry Broadhurst and John Burnett."The International Trades Union Congress at Paris", Morning Post, 30 October 1883 By the mid-1880s, Bailey was in poor health. He attended the 1886 TUC, but was unable to take part in its activities. He was taken home after it closed, and he died one week later.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: J. E. Davison", Annual Report of the 1927 Trades Union Congress, p.263 Davison became increasingly prominent in the FSIF, becoming chairman of its executive, then its full-time national organiser. During World War I, he served on advisory councils for the Ministry of Munitions and the Board of Trade. At the 1918 general election, he was elected as MP for the new Smethwick constituency on the outskirts of Birmingham.

Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1961 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.289 Brown was also active in the Labour Party, and was elected to Manchester City Council. In 1935, with the ISTC's general secretary Arthur Pugh about to retire, Brown was appointed as his assistant for six months and moved to Glasgow, where he was elected to Glasgow City Council. Pugh retired at the end of 1935, and Brown was chosen as his replacement.

41 Running the union proved difficult, with opposition from some employers, various factions vying for influence, and finances precarious, but it survived.Alan Fox, A history of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, 1847-1957, p.49 In 1877, when the Trades Union Congress was held in Leicester, Smith was elected to its Parliamentary Committee.Trades Union Congress, "Parliamentary Committee elected at Leicester", Annual Report of the 1877 Trades Union Congress, p.

As a member of the regional party leadership team ("KPD-Bezirksleitung") for western Saxony, Arthur Lieberasch was Secretary for Trades Union questions. In 1923, at the eighth party conference, he had been elected to the party's "Trades Union Commission" ("Gewerkschaftskommission"). By this time he was seen as part of the right win within the Communist Party which, during the 1920s, was falling increasingly into the hands of a younger generation of left-wingers.

France was invaded by Germany during May/June 1940. Political and trades union activity was banned, with the result that various political organisations, including the Trades Union Confederation ("Confédération générale du travail" / CGT) itself, "went underground", becoming progressively incorporated into the wider French Resistance movement. Fontenis joined the "clandestine CGT", also participating actively in local syndicalist groups. By this time he was working as a primary school teacher in the north-eastern part of Paris.

Annual Report of the 1960 Trades Union Congress, p.316 Walsh was soon elected to the national executive of NACODS, and in the 1940s became its first full-time general secretary. He worked hard to improve mine safety whilst in post. He also represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and served on the General Council of the TUC in 1950, and again from 1957 until he died, late in 1959.

It was established in 1975. In 2008 it opened membership to primary principal teachers. AHDS has no political affiliation and is not a member of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

Sir Harold Vincent Tewson, (4 February 1898 – 1 May 1981) was an English trade unionist who served as General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1946 to 1960.

This gave Marsden increased prominence in the trade union movement, and he was a prominent figure at meetings of the Trades Union Congress. Marsden died in 1975, still in office.

The union amalgamated with the Electrical Trades Union of Australia and the Communication Workers Union of Australia in the 1990s to form the Communication, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia.

Through this, he also became active on the Sheffield Federated Trades Council, and served as its secretary from 1883.Report of the 1912 Annual Conference of the Trades Union Congress, p.

The British Trades Union Congress was split since it had a strong anticommunist faction.Alpert (1998). p. 65. Both the British and French governments were committed to avoiding a second world war.

Eleanor Barlow, "Wirral man Paul Nowak appointed assistant general secretary of the Trades Union Congress", Liverpool Echo, 26 February 2013 In 1998, he was active in the Banking Insurance and Finance Union, when was one of the first students at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Organising Academy.Pete Murray, "TUC appoints senior organiser to new top job ", Union News, 13 February 2013 Nowak later worked for the TUC, as regional secretary of the Northern TUC, and then as head of its organising department. He also served on the board of Acas. In February 2013, he was appointed joint Assistant General Secretary of the TUC,"Paul Nowak, Assistant General Secretary", Trades Union Congress and in February 2016, he was promoted to become Deputy General Secretary.

Richard Pickering (22 September 1942 - 10 October 1996) was a British trade union leader. Born in Manchester, Pickering became active in the local Labour Party and in the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.Keith Harper, "Dick Pickering: International union man", The Guardian, 12 October 1996 He began working for Manchester City Council in 1967, and soon became shop steward for the city's refuse workers,Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Dick Pickering", Annual Report of the 1996 Trades Union Congress then later was elected as secretary of the union's Manchester branch.Keith Harper, "Dick Pickering: International union man", The Guardian, 12 October 1996 In 1982, he became the chair of the union's executive, and he was subsequently also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr Thomas McKenna, OBE", Annual Report of the 1940 Trades Union Congress, p.218 He was elected as secretary of the Cleveland and Durham Blastfurnacemen and Cokemen's Association in 1912,Peter Stubley, "The churches and the iron and steel industry in Middlesbrough 1890-1914", p.40 then in 1914, he was elected as the federation's president, and as its general secretary in 1917.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.

II, p. 64. From this position, he masterminded a merger of several small unions which formed the National Union of Gold, Silver and Allied Trades (NUGSAT), completed in 1911, and became its first secretary.Trades Union Congress, Report of Proceedings at the 86th Annual Trades Union Congress (1954), p. 319. In 1921, Kean was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), remaining in place until 1945, and serving as President of the TUC in 1934/1935.

Trades Union Congress, Report of Proceedings at the 64th Annual Trades Union Congress (1932), p.228 Around this time, demarcation disputes between the AMMW and the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union (LMCU) led the union to leave the Scottish Miners' Federation (SMF). The SMF sent Robert Small of the LMCU to attempt to found a rival union in West Lothian, and he attempted to persuade Doonan to lead it, but Doonan refused, and the AMMW later rejoined the SMF.

Cartmail is a Commissioner at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. In her spare time, she enjoys cold-water swimming. In 2020, Cartmail became the President of the Trades Union Congress.

It was led by Archie Crawford. Membership reached 60,000. It was active in the Rand Rebellion in 1922. It collapsed in 1925 and was replaced by the South African Trades Union Council.

Increasingly associated with the right-wing of the union, he served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1954, and supported the anti- communist Industrial and Research Information Services from 1956.

Trades Union Congress, "TUC General Council members" He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours, for services to the steel industry.

5, pp.282-285 This was later renamed the "Alliance and Leicester Group Union of Staff" and affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. In 2007, it merged into the Communication Workers' Union.

In 1946 he identified in the Soviet occupation zone "a few surviving trades union principals still anchored", but this did not blind him to the realisation that the "Trades union principals" operating in the Free German Trade Union Federation (Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB) (which would evolve to become the East German version of a national trades union federation) were diametrically opposite to his own idea of trades union principals. The extent to which the postwar Soviet occupation zone would become, after 1949, a completely separate state from that defined by the three German occupation zones to its west was not generally understood in 1946. However, after the Soviet zone was relaunched, in October 1949, as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Bleicher delivered his assessment in a speech to the 1952 (West) German Trade Union Confederation ("Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund" /DGB), denouncing the East German state as a Stalinist dictatorship masquerading as "people's democracy". None of that prevented him from remaining, at heart, a man of the left.

Barnet TUC was relaunched here, at Hendon town hall. Barnet Trades Union Council (or 'Barnet TUC')Barnet Trades Union Council web site is an association of trade union branches and individuals in north London, which describes itself as: Barnet TUC is affiliated to the Greater London Association of Trade Union CouncilsGreater London Association of Trade Union Councils web site and the national Trades Union Congress. Founded in Barnet's industrial past, it folded during the deindustrialisation of the early 1990s, but reformed in 2008 in Hendon Town Hall. Barnet TUC is group of people in the borough of Barnet who support trade unions and want to defend and improve public services. Part of the structure of the national Trades Union Congress (TUC), the constitution includes the aim: “To improve generally the economic and social conditions of working people, including seeking improvements to the social services, public education, housing and health.” Activities include sharing news and ideas about trade union issues and discussing wider questions such as social justice and opposition to racism and other forms of discrimination.

Labour Party Conference Gail Cartmail (born 1955) is an Assistant General Secretary (AGS) at the trade union Unite and also a member of the Trades Union Congress' (TUC) Executive Committee and General Council.

Arthur Lieberasch (2 November 1881 - 10 June 1967) was a Communist trades union official who became a member of the Parliament of Saxony ("Sächsischer Landtag") and, after 1933 an anti-government resistance activist.

Jarvie became the assistant general secretary of the new union. From 1960 to 1963, he also served on the General Council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. He died in 1970, aged 51.

59 Trade Unions and 3 Trade Associations are affiliated to the National Trades Union Congress. The affiliated unions can be broadly categorised under Industrial Sector, Service Sector, Public Sector Unions and Omnibus Unions.

Brendan Harkin, a former organiser with the Electrical Trades Union and convenor with the Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions (Confed), was appointed NICSA Assistant Secretary. \- The Making of PSA - Terry Cradden - December Publishing.

When the union was reorganised, he became its organising secretary, then in 1939 he was elected as general secretary.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: E. W. Spackman", Annual Report of the 1956 Trades Union Congress, p.312 Spackman was also a member of the executive of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, chairing it for some years, and also served as chair of the Printing Trades Joint Industrial Council. In 1945, Spackman was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

By the time Ghana became independent in 1957 - leading the Gold Coast Trades Union Congress to become the Trades Union Congress of Ghana - there were splinter labor groups in all regions of the country. Many were much more militant than the TUC and violent demonstrations and strikes were no rarity in Ghana. Employers responded by creating yellow unions. In 1958, the Ghanaian government responded as well by passing the Industrial Relations Act of 1958 in order to strengthen the TUC.

313 He also represented the union at the Irish Trades Union Congress, and sat on the standing orders committee of the Irish Labour Party.Irish Labour Party, Annual Report (1958), p.26 McDermott was elected as assistant general secretary of the Woodworkers in 1947, then, the following year, succeeded as general secretary. In 1949, he was elected onto the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and he also sat on the council of the National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.

The first large trade union, the General Trades' Union (GTU), was organized in New York City on 14 August 1833 by delegates from nine craft trades. It celebrated with a public parade displaying its new emblem, a banner bearing a likeness of Archimedes lifting a mountain with a lever. Ely Moore, a journeyman printer, was elected its first president. He left soon after, and with the backing of the newly formed National Trades’ Union won a seat in Congress as a Democrat.

At the end of the war both her home region of Saxony and Potsdam, where she had been liberated by Soviet soldiers, found themselves in the Soviet occupation zone of what had previously been Germany. Grete Groh- Kummerlöw's first job involved working in Potsdam for the Soviet commander as the occupiers established an administration structure, but in August 1945 she returned to the Plauen area and immediately resumed her trades union activities. She worked as a secretary for the Plauen Party Leadership, taking on responsibility for training communist cells and extending trades union influence in the factories. In January 1946, as a member of the executive of the regional executive of the important Textile Workers' Union, she was mandated to take on the chair of the Third Trades Union Congress Executive for Saxony.

From 1960, Skidmore worked as a union official, initially with the Electrical Trades Union and then with others.John Edward Skidmore – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

The Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP) is a professional member's organisation representing theatre playwrights in Scotland. It is affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and party to the Theatrical Management Association playwright's agreement.

410 In 1997, the organisation took over negotiation duties from the National Union of Teachers, and in 1999, it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. It only began accepting members in Scotland in 2003.

Bruxelles: Institut syndical européen pour la recherche, la formation et la santé-sécurité. ## Integrating Gender in Ergonomic Analysis. Brussels: Trades Union Technical Bureau, European Economic Community. ## Compreender o trabalho das mulheres para o transformar.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), representing 52 British Trade Unions, endorsed Britain remaining in the EU. All but a few of its member unions were expected to urge voters to stay in the EU.

427-428 While General Secretary, Flynn represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and served on the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC in 1916/17. He died, still in office, in 1925.

The AFL–CIO provided the most aid to Solidarity, but substantial additional aid was provided by Western-European labor unions, including the United Kingdom's Trades Union Congress and especially the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.

In 1936, he became its president, and was also elected for two years to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. However, in 1940, he was suffering with poor health, and decided to retire.

Archive material from 1895–1910 is held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Other material from 1907–1909 is held in the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collection at London Metropolitan University.

The POA: The Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, formerly the Prison Officers' Association (POA), is a trade union is in the United Kingdom. It currently has a membership over 30,000.

In 1971, it amalgamated into the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT), Shube continuing as assistant general secretary until 1975, when he was elected as its general secretary. He died in office, in 1978.

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG).

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Ambrose Callighan", Annual Report of the 1955 Trades Union Congress, p.309 In 1913, Callighan served as chairman of the Cleveland Blastfurnacemen. In 1919, he moved to Cumberland to become full- time secretary of the Cumberland and Lancashire Blastfurnacemen's Association, and in 1921, he was elected to Cumberland County Council. The Cumberland and Lancashire Blastfurnacemen were affiliated to the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades (NUB), and Callighan was elected as its president in 1939.

Born in Wakefield, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire,"Obituary: Leonard Sharp", Annual Report of the 1972 Trades Union Congress, p.311 Sharp undertook a number of jobs, and was a keen trade unionist, joining first the National Union of Railwaymen, then the National Union of General Workers."Presentation to Mr. L. Sharp", Annual Report of the 1966 Trades Union Congress, p.541 In 1920, he began working in the textile industry, and joined the Amalgamated Society of Dyers, Finishers and Kindred Trades.

He served as official report for the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and from 1927 to 1930 served as an auditor of the Trades Union Congress. In 1946, he was elected as full-time president of the NUC, serving until 1951. He then became a trustee of the union, and was awarded its Gold Badge. Scouller died in 1974, at which time he was still serving as chair of his local branch of the union, by then known as the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff.

Alfred W. Burrows (1884 - 28 March 1966) was a British trade unionist. Born in Leicester, Burrows began working for a local co-operative retailer, and joined the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees. In 1921, this became part of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers (NUDAW), and Burrows became its full-time Midlands Divisional Officer;Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: A. W. Burrows", Annual Report of the 1966 Trades Union Congress, p.380 he served until 1936, when he replaced John Jagger as Organising Secretary.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr F. O. Roberts", Annual Report of the 1942 Trades Union Congress, pp.135-136 He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Viscount Lewisham. He held the seat until the Conservatives regained it in 1931, but was re-elected at the 1935 general election. He was sworn as a Privy Councillor in 1924, when he was appointed as Minister of Pensions in Ramsay MacDonald's First Labour Government.

The union came into existence in 2001, when it was named the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU). It arose from an amalgamation between the Electrical Trades Union and the National Engineering and Electrical Trades Union. Both unions could trace their origins to 1920 when union activists in British based unions believed Irish workers needed autonomous representation in the emerging Irish state. In 2016, members of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians based in the Republic of Ireland transferred to the TEEU.

In 1890, the TUC was held in the city, and he was elected as its President. Active in the trade union movement to the end of his life, he also served on the Parliamentary Committee in 1890 and 1891, and from 1911 until 1915.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1920 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.235 Matkin was a leading supporter of the Labour Electoral Association, which aimed to secure the election of Liberal-Labour candidates: working men who stood for the Liberal Party.

He served in the post for seven years,Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: William P. Allen", Annual Report of the 1958 Trades Union Congress, p.311 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1947 New Year Honours. Later in 1947, Allen resigned all his trade union positions to take up a position on British Transport Commission (BTC)'s new Railway Executive, acting as chief negotiator with the railway trade unions.T. R. Gourvish, British Railways 1948-73: A Business History, p.

He became active in the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and served as its president in 1954. In 1956, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 1960, Bothwell was elected as assistant general secretary of the union, by now renamed as the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA). He became general secretary in 1963, and was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and in 1965 to the general council of the International Transport Workers' Federation.

In 1900 he joined the national office workers' trades union ("Zentralverband der Büroangestellten") and from then till 1900 was also working as a trades union official at the union's Berlin office. In 1903 Lehmann joined the Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / SPD). In 1903 he became a department head at the AOK health insurance office at Berlin where he worked, a position he retained till 1907. In 1904 he established and became chairman of the League for Apprentices and Young Workers in Prussia.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr C. J. Drummond", Annual Report of the 1929 Trades Union Congress, pp.269-270 As general secretary, Drummond focused on arbitrating disputes, often finding in favour of the employers,"A printing trade 'umpire'", Manchester Guardian, 21 December 1923 and also on an ultimately successful campaign for a nine-hour working day. He supported women joining the union, but only at the lower, journeyman, level, and proposed a resolution stating that "women are not physically capable of performing the duties of a compositor".

Terence Anthony Casey (6 September 1920 - 18 March 1987) was a British trade union leader. Casey was educated at Holy Cross School in Ramsgate, then qualified as a teacher at Camden College."Casey, Terency Anthony", Who Was Who During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Education Corps as a teacher. From 1946, he worked at state schools in London, and he joined the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS).Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Terence Casey, CBE", Report of the 119th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.

James Gilroy Baty (1 February 18961939 England and Wales Register - 5 April 1959) was a British trade unionist. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he began working on the railways, and joined the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) in 1896. He devoted much of his time to trade unionism, being active on the trades council, serving on ASLEF's executive committee from 1928, and as its president in 1934.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: J. G. Baty", Annual Report of the 1959 Trades Union Congress, p.

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley (2000) p157 In 1964, the NCLC merged with the Workers' Educational Trade Union Committee to form the Trades Union Congress Education Department.

Augustin "Gustl" Sandtner was born in Munich. His father worked as a marble cutter/grinder. "Gustl" trained for work in a bakery. In 1911 he became an organiser in the "Bakers and Pastry Makers Trades Union".

Otto Brenner later wrote in the monthly trades union magazine that "the metal industries employers thought that the time had come to inflict a decisive defeat on the German trades union movement. Under the pretext of acting in the general interests of the country as a whole, and protecting the nation from supposed economic damage, they wanted to push through implementation of a "Master of this house" standpoint".The metal industries employers thought that the time had come to inflict a decisive defeat on the German trades union movement. Under the pretext of acting in the general interests of the country as a whole, and protecting the nation from supposed economic damage, they wanted to push through their "Master of this house" standpoint" "Die Metallindustriellen hielten die Stunde für gekommen, um der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung eine entscheidende Niederlage beizubringen.

In 1992 the union finalised a merger with the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia to form the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia. It is industry union for all workers in the apparel industry.

Walkden (on right) as part of a Trades Union Congress delegation to Downing Street in 1925 Alexander George Walkden, 1st Baron Walkden (11 May 1873 – 25 April 1951) was a British trade union leader and Labour politician.

He became General Secretary of the TUC in June 2003. On 18 April 2012, he announced his retirement, enabling a successor to be elected in September at Trades Union Congress 2012. Frances O'Grady was elected his successor.

The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) occupies floors 11 to 14 in the building. In 2005, One Marina Boulevard received a Certificate of Merit in the Best Buildable Design Awards, under the Commercial and Office Buildings Category.

While employed at the Federal Institute she also established herself as a personal counsellor and worked as an honorary (i.e. unpaid) official of the Public Services and Transport Trades Union ("Gewerkschaft Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr" / ÖTV).

With the Protection from Harassment Act 2014, the Ministry of Manpower (Singapore), the National Trades Union Congress(NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) have also developed an advisory since 23 December 2015 fighting workplace harassment.

The South Korean Ministry of Environment and the British Trades Union Congress have promoted their own Cool Biz campaigns since summer 2006. The concept also inspired the United Nations to launch the "Cool UN" initiative in 2008.

Community is affiliated to a number of national, European and International union structures. At a national level, Community is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and Wales TUC. At a European level, Community affiliates to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF), European Trade Union Federation - Textiles, Clothing & Leather (ETUF-TCL) and UNI-Europa. At an international level, Community affiliates to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF), International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) and UNI-Global.

Sir Alfred George Tomkins (9 March 1895England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 - 6 May 1975) was a long-serving British trade union leader. Tomkins worked as a chair-maker and joined the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association (NAFTA), becoming a branch secretary in 1922."Obituary: Sir Alfred Tomkins", Annual Report of the 1975 Trades Union Congress, p.344 A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and supporter of industrial unionism, he quickly became well-known through promoting this position at the Trades Union Congress.

In 1934/5, he served as Mayor of Preston, the third Labour mayor of the town. In 1936, he was elected as vice-chairman of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, and in 1938 he was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr Robert C. Handley", Annual Report of the 1940 Trades Union Congress, p.217 Handley was also active internationally, attending the conferences of the International Labour Organization, at which he was particularly well known for his campaign for a maximum forty-hour working week.

In 1961 Karl Anders accepted the invitation to join the national election team of the Social Democratic Party (SPD / Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands). He also served, between 1971 and 1974, as a member of the party's "Core Values Commission" ("Grundwerte-Kommission"). He was an adviser to the IG Bau-Steine-Erden trades union, which led to the publication in 1969 of his history of the trades union under the title "Stein für Stein" ("Stone for stone"). He continued to write, also remaining active as a contributor to the party newspaper, Vorwärts.

During World War I, Boothman served on the Cotton Control Board, and in 1916, he was elected as the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Around the same time, he won election as treasurer of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association and, in 1919, he was elected to the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and continued on its replacement, the General Council. From 1925 to 1929, he served on the Board of Trade Committee."Obituary: Henry Boothman", Annual Report of the 1953 Trades Union Congress, p.

The 1983 Todd Shipyard Strike (Part of the Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union Strike) was a strike action by 10,000 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union members from July 26 to September 26, 1983, deadlocking business in 9 shipyards. The Todd Shipyards Corporation was significantly impacted by this strike. The bargaining between the unions under the Pacific Coast Metal Trades District Council, and the Pacific Shipbuilders Association led to a new contract, but that did not prevent Todd Shipyards from losing a significant amount of business and subsequent loss of workers in the years that followed.

Alfred Mervyn Wall (1 November 18891939 England and Wales Register – 2 October 1957) was a British trade unionist and political activist. Born in East Hamlet, Shropshire,1901 England Census Wall moved to London to work as a compositor,Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1958 Trades Union Congress, p.314Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.13 and was a member of the British Socialist Party (BSP). This affiliated to the Labour Party after World War I, and Wall was unexpectedly elected to Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough Council for Clapham North in 1918.

Until 1894, representatives of Irish trade unions attended the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). However, many felt that they had little impact on the British body, and the Dublin Trades Council had twice tried and failed to form an Irish federation of trade unions. Its third attempt, the Irish Trades Union Congress, met for the first time in April 1894. Although some Irish delegates continued to attend the British TUC, their decision to bar representatives of trades councils from 1895 increased dissatisfaction, and the ITUC soon became the leading Irish union federation.

Sir Lionel Pinnock Poole (28 October 1894 - 13 January 1967) was a British trade unionist. Poole was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, to Levi Samuel Mitchell Poole and Lucy Poole.Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 He came to prominence in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), becoming branch secretary, then in 1919 being chosen as its full-time national organiser."BOAC's new top men", Flight, 1 July 1960 He was elected to its executive council in 1926,Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1967 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.

The Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union () was a trade union representing print workers in Ireland. The union was founded in 1920 as the Irish Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Trade Union, by Dublin-based members of the UK-based National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers. It became the "Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union" in 1938. From 1941, the Irish government required unions to obtain a license, and the National Union thereafter withdrew from Ireland, the Irish Bookbinders thereafter recruiting throughout the country; by the 1950, it had around 1,000 members.

The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), also known as the Singapore National Trades Union Congress (SNTUC; Chinese: 新加坡全国职工总会), is the sole national trade union centre in Singapore. NTUC is at the heart of the Labour Movement which comprises 59 affiliated trade unions, 5 affiliated trade associations, 12 social enterprises, 6 related organisations as well as a growing ecosystem of U Associates and enterprise partners. Together, it helms May Day celebrations and organises an annual rally in support of workers' solidarity and commitment to tripartite partnership.

James Knapp (29 September 1940 - 13 August 2001) was a British trades unionist.Obituary: Jimmy Knapp, The Guardian, 14 August 2001 He was successively General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) from 1983, and then of the merged National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) from 1990 to his death in 2001. He served on the executive board of the International Transport Workers' Federation from 1983 to 2001, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1983 to 2001, and was President of the Trades Union Congress in 1994.

Hayday (second from left) as part of a Trades Union Congress delegation to Downing Street in 1925 Arthur Hayday (24 October 1869, in London – 28 February 1956) was an English Labour Party politician. After learning his trade as a chemical trimmer and stoker, Hayday became involved in the National Union of General Workers, of which he was an official for many years. He served as President of the Trades Union Congress from 1930 to 1931. In December 1918, Hayday was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham West.

"Mr R. Openshaw", The Guardian, 8 November 1962Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Robert Openshaw", Annual Report of the 1963 Trades Union Congress, pp.303-304 Openshaw represented the AEU on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1940 to 1948, and at the Trades Union Congress (TUC). He served as the TUC's representative to the American Federation of Labour in 1947, and was also elected to the General Council of the TUC in 1948. In 1953, Openshaw was elected as the President of the AEU; he served until his retirement, three years later.

Between 1979 and 1984, the South East Queensland Electricity Generating Board (SEQEB) had been negotiating with the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) over working conditions for Electrical Trades Union employees and the use of casual contractors. SEQEB wanted to be able to employ cheaper casual staff to fix faults and connect power. The ETU was opposed to the privatisation of their industry. The ETU believed the move toward employing casual and contract staff would reduce job security for their employees, increase the length of the working week and would affect wage conditions.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr. Gurney Rowlerson", Annual Report of the 1944 Trades Union Congress, p.192 Rowlerson was consistently critical of the formation of rival unions in the tailoring industry, many of which organised Jewish workers. In 1908, he opposed the formation of the London Ladies' Tailors' Union, saying that "...most of the ladies' tailors' are foreigners". In 1915, he tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the General Federation of Trade Unions to get various small affiliates to become branches of the ASTT rather than form the United Garment Workers' Trade Union (UGWTU).

In 1958, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire. O'Hagan served on the Iron and Steel Industrial Training Board and the National Safety Committee, and was a delegate to the International Labour Conference. He was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1954, and served as the President of the TUC in 1966."Details of Past Congresses ", Trades Union Congress After leaving his union duties, O'Hagan served as a director of British Steel Corporation's General Steels section until his final retirement in 1971.

As of the late 1920s, the offices of Vorwärts were located on Strada General Mirescu, 4.Labour Party (Great Britain), Trades Union Congress, and Fabian Research Department. The Labour Year Book. London: Co-operative Printing Society, 1929. p.

By the mid-1920s, IPEU had achieved most of these goals. Woll served as AFL fraternal delegate to the British Trades Union Congress in 1915 and 1916. During World War I, he served on the War Labor Board.

In 1975, he was elected to the general council of the Trades Union Congress. In 1977, he became a member of the Energy Commission. He retired in 1979, but remained chairman of the CPB (M-L) until 1985.

He stood in the 1952 and 1953 elections for the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, but was unsuccessful. Stevens was seriously injured in a car accident in October 1954, and died a week later, aged 50.

Helena Mary Molony (15 January 1883 – 28 January 1967) was a prominent Irish republican, feminist and labour activist. She fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and later became the second woman president of the Irish Trades Union Congress.

In addition, for many years she held a senior political position within the Berlin region Trades Union Federation. She was also reported in 1962 chairing the commission on Social Security. She died in Berlin on 1 February 1993.

In 1929 Weidauer was elected leader of the Carpentry Trades Union in the Essen district, but he resigned three days later on account of "party factionalism" which was a feature of left-wing politics in Germany during the 1920s.

He was state secretary of the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union from 1923 to 1955. From 1952 to 1956 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He died at St Leonards in 1956.

In 1865 Duncker became chairman of the Greater Berlin Artisans' League ("Handwerkerverein"). Together with Max Hirsch and Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch he established the Hirsch- Dunckersche Gewerkvereine, which was a form of liberal trades union movement, founded in 1868.

In 1993, it took its current name, recognising the membership of podiatrists, and in 1997, it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. In 1998, the Association of Chief Chiropody Officers and the Podiatry Association both merged with the society.

Serwotka in 2008 Mark Henryk Serwotka (; born 26 April 1963) is General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the largest trade union representing British civil servants. He was also President of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

In 1925 he was combining his parliamentary work with work as ab party instructor for the Augsburg sub-district. In 1926 he became regional secretary and, after 1928, secretary for trades union matters in the North Bavaria regional leadership.

From 1985, Scard worked full-time for the union, based in Birmingham. He was elected as General Secretary of the MU in 1990, defeating Stan Martin. He was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

During his most heated rhetoric he collapsed onto the podium. Moore headed and established the General Trades Union of New York. The GTU was the first Union containing multiple trades. In 1834 Ely Moore became President of the National Trade Union.

He was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1944, he represented the TUC to the American Federation of Labour. He retired from his union posts in 1946, and sat on various government committees.

Norman David Willis (21 January 1933 - 7 June 2014) was the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1993, and President of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) from 1991 to 1993.

In 1958 he was elected President of the Executive Board of the Ghana Trades Union Congress and appointed Vice-President of the Builders Brigade Council with the rank of Lieutenant. He retired as Product Assistant/Technical Manager in that same year.

Its current Chair of its Board is David Smith.IES Council. Retrieved 13 November 2017. Other notable members of its Board include John Greatrex from Unipart Group, Nicola Smith from the Trades Union Congress and Professor David Guest of King's College London.

In this role she constantly has championed workers rights for the 200,000 plus members she represented For the three years prior to her election victory she was also a member of the North West TUC (Trades Union Council) Executive Committee.

From 1934 to 1946, Dukes was General Secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. From 1946 to 1947 he was President of the Trades Union Congress. In 1947 he was appointed a director of the Bank of England.

Failure to engage and train trade union representatives and include them in the panel process may also open the door to tribunal challenges in the matter of equal pay and hidden discrimination claims in workplaces where Trades Union representation is present.

Francis Chandler, Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners: History of the Society, 1860-1910 While in office, Chandler served on the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws,"Mr Francis Chandler", Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1937 signing the minority report. Chandler also represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), serving on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress on several occasions, and chairing the committee in 1899. He represented the TUC to the American Federation of Labour in 1901. In his spare time, Chandler served on the Chorlton Board of Guardians, becoming its chairman in 1906.

Between 1947 and 1949 she edited the newspaper "Bund", and from 1949 till 1951 she edited the Trades Unions Confederation newspaper "World of Work" ("Welt der Arbeit"). She was also working as a freelance journalist, with a particular focus on trades union education work. Along with this she undertook certain leadership roles in the trades union movement. Between 1950 and 1955 she was a member of the executive of the print workers' union, IG Druck und Papier, and at one point she was chair of the German Journalists' Union and of the Women's Committee of the Trades Unions Confederation.

He served on the union's executive committee for many years, and was president of the union for 1929-1930. In 1938, MacKellar was appointed as the AESD's full-time organiser for the London area, then later moved to cover Scotland and Northern Ireland. In this new role, he became prominent in the Scottish Trades Union Congress, serving on its general council from 1947, as its fraternal delegate to the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1951, and as its chair for 1952-1953. In the 1953 New Year Honours, MacKellar was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

The council also engaged with the broader trade union movement. It hosted the Trades Union Congress in Aberdeen in 1884, and in 1895 it hosted a meeting of Scottish trade unions and trades councils which led to the formation of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), in 1897. In 1973, it became the leading organisation in the new Grampian Federation of Trades Councils. Early in its history, the council met at the Queens Rooms on Union Street, but in 1892 it purchased its own headquarters on Belmont Street, and four years later opened a purpose-built trades hall, with murals by Douglas Strachan.

In 1918, he moved the union's headquarters from Fakenham to London in an attempt to broaden its national appeal, but this initially had little success, and removed him from direct influence in the union's activities in the county.Howard Newby, The deferential farm worker: a study of farm workers in Norfolk, p. 221 He achieved a national profile with the Trades Union Congress, being elected to its Parliamentary Committee in 1917, then serving as president in 1921–22."Details of Past Congresses ", Trades Union Congress In 1928, Walker stood down as general secretary of the NUAW in controversial circumstances.

University of Warwick Archive: Cinema Retrieved December 2010 The National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers and Kindred Trades changed its name to the Sign and Display Trades Union in 1945. University of Warwick Archive: TUC SDTU records Retrieved December 2010 In 1949 two other unions, the Northern Glass Workers' Employees' Association and the National Society of Decorative Glass Workers of the United Kingdom, transferred their engagements to the Sign and Display Trades Union. In 1958 the SDTU was involved in a dispute with Glasgow neon sign manufacturers; Laird Neon. Glasgow University Principal, Hector Hetherington, was appointed as arbitrator.

The RMT is affiliated to a number of political organisations and trade union confederations. In the United Kingdom and Ireland the RMT is affiliated with the TUC, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Wales Trades Union Congress and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Internationally the RMT is affiliated to the European Transport Workers Federation and the International Transport Workers Federation, as well as the World Federation of Trade Unions. Politically the RMT is affiliated with the left wing political party the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, which it co-founded and encourages members to participate in.

The General Trades' Union was formed in New York City in 1833 with the purpose of uniting all of the trade societies of New York. The goal of this central union was to better coordinate the various trade unions in the New York City area, to provide assistance during conflicts with employers, and to maintain a fund for striking laborers. The GTU formed the National Trades Union, the first attempt at a nationwide union movement. The GTU of New York organised one the first strikes in the United States and initiated the system now known as collective bargaining.

Women in England mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792 ;1834 (England) :The Tolpuddle Martyrs, agricultural workers who formed a trade union in Tolpuddle in Dorsetshire, were sentenced by a Whig Ministry Special Commission to transportation to a penal colony in Australia. ;March 1834 (United States) :National Trades' Union formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations from around the country to send delegates to a national convention. This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. ;1834 (United States) :Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike.

The union grew steadily for many years, membership reaching 1,525 in 1892, and about 4,500 in 1925. It generally voted against mergers with other unions, rejecting an amalgamation with the Platen Printing Machine Minders' Society or the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants in 1912, but the London United Society of Plate Printers did join in 1919.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Percy Astins", Annual Report of the 1963 Trades Union Congress, p.302 It finally agreed a working arrangement with the London Society of Compositors in 1953, and merged into that union two years later.

The union was founded in 1921, when the Civil Service Clerical Union and the Clerical Officers' Association merged to form the Civil Service Clerical Association (CSCA). It affiliated with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Labour Party and had around 16,000 members. Its Dublin branch left the following year, to form the Civil and Public Services Union. Following the 1926 United Kingdom general strike, the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 was passed, requiring government employees to disaffiliate from political parties and trades union confederations, compelling the union to leave the Labour Party and the TUC.

Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: George E. Dearing", Annual Report of the 1968 Trades Union Congress, p.422"Dearing, George Edmund", Who Was Who Dearing also represented his union on the management committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and the executive committee of the International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation. In his spare time, Dearing chaired the East Midlands Economic Planning Council from 1965, and also served on the Consultative Council of the East Midlands Gas Board. He was active in the Labour Party, and was an Urban District Councillor until he stood down in 1967.

In an e-mail to reporters from the Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao in early July, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong praised Tony Tan's performance during his time in Cabinet, and stopping short of an outright endorsement, said that should Tony Tan be elected president, he would be able to unite Singaporeans, and bring honour to the country. In early August, Minister of National Development Khaw Boon Wan echoed Lee Hsien Loong's sentiments on Tony Tan at a National Day banquet in Sembawang, stating that he will be an excellent president, and make the nation proud. In what could be construed as an endorsement, Khaw publicly wished Tony Tan will win the Presidency. In a break with the past, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) President and Member of Parliament Lim Swee Say said the NTUC will not force all its constituent trades union to endorse one candidate, and that the constituent trades union may endorse any candidate as they desire.

The Electrical Trades Union escalated the dispute and within a week the Department had reinstated the workers. More widely this resulted in new employment conditions: normal weekly hours were reduced from 52 to 50 at 9d. per hour with defined rates for overtime.

In 1951, she served as President of the Irish Trades Union Congress, and from 1955 to 1957 she was Secretary of the Women Workers' Union. She was also active in the International League for Peace and Freedom and the Irish Pacifist Movement.

Aloys Georg "Ludwig Wiener" Rink was born into a working class family in Vienna. or Urberach (near Darmstadt). Sources differ. Georg Rink, his father, worked as a "rabbit/hare fur cutter"("Hasenhaareschneider") and was a member of the "Clothing Workers' [Trades] Union" ("Bekleidungsarbeitverband ").

Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century LifeKenneth Lapides, Marx and Engels on Trade Unions, p.208 Mottershead was also a prominent trade unionist, and served on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1874/5, representing Preston Trades Council.

Labour Electoral Society, The Times, 25 April 1889, p.13Labour Electoral Congress, The Times, 8 April 1890, p.8 He was elected to the parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1892.Trade Union Congress, The Times, 12 September 1892, p.

Jimmy Milne (1921–1986) was General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). He died in office. Born in 1921, Milne joined the Communist Party in 1939. He was a patternmaker by trade and first worked at the Hall Russell shipyard.

Jim Smith was for many years a member of the Liquor Trades Union and was one of the chief organisers of relief in times of industrial depression and major strikes, arranging for relief for the wives and families of wharf laborers and others.

Yeo Guat Kwang (; born 27 January 1961) was a former Member of the Parliament of Singapore from 1997 to 2015, as a member of the People's Action Party (PAP). He is currently the Assistant Director-General in the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).

For the Institute for Public Policy Research, he was trustee from 1989 to 1994 and treasurer from 1990 to 1994. Since 1981, Christopher is also trustee of the Trades Union Unit Trust Charitable Trust and since 1998 of the Douglas Houghton Memorial Fund.

The Cape Town Stevedoring Workers Union was a South African Trades Union. In 1929 James Schuba was the secretary of the union. He recruited Rachel Simons to assist him, though she was then only 15.In 1935 Johnny Gomas was the secretary.

It was the first time the Act was invoked in Singapore for a decade and the first use by the government against individuals. In 2012, an assistant director at National Trades Union Congress membership department was fired for racist comments in Facebook.

Famous supporters of Coburg include Cleary, former Trades Union boss Dean Mighell, former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke, musician Vance Joy (who previously played with Coburg from 2007-2009 when they were known as the Tigers), and 3SER stats doyen Anthony Brady.

6, pp.386-387 The union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. Its general secretary was Jack Morrish. The union had 12,000 members by 1973, and had grown to 13,148 by 1975, when it merged into the Society of Civil and Public Servants.

In 1992, McGrath succeeded as general secretary of KFAT then, in 1994, won the top post of general president. As of 1996, she was one of only five women to lead a Trades Union Congress (TUC) affiliated union.Labour Research, Vol.85, p.

Norman Kennedy was a trade unionist and politician in Ireland. Kennedy was a prominent member of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union. He served as President of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1957.Donal Nevin et al, Trade Union Century, p.

The vote was rejected by 143,006 to 82,631. However, an overtime ban was implemented with the aim of halving production. This action hurt the coal industry and was unpopular amongst the British media, although the Trades Union Congress supported the NUM's actions.

De Largie's role with the AWA led to his prominence in labour politics and de Largie was elected president of the goldfields division of the joint Labor parliamentary committee in April 1899 and inaugural chair of the Western Australian Trades Union and Labor Congress.

In November 1926, with his brothers Aristide and Laurent, he participated in the establishment of the Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (CGT) and thereafter contributed articles to the Le Combat syndicaliste, the weekly political magazine of France's principal trades union grouping the CGT.

Famous quote in Marx's Capital from Dunning's pamphlet, Trades' unions and strikesTrades' unions and strikes: their philosophy and intention, pp. 35-36. runs as: British labour historian Royden Harrison called Dunning, "the authoritative voice of the Trades Union oligarchy".Royden Harrison. Before the Socialists.

In 1935, Berry was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, serving until his death. He also served on the Joint Industrial Councils for Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Electricity, on the National Railway Shopmen's Council, and a Home Office committee on crane safety.

In this role, he was a close ally of Jack Tanner and used his influence to oppose the left-wing of the union movement. He was also active in the Trades Union Congress, chairing the General Purposes Committee from 1948. He died suddenly in 1956.

This led Williams to agree to agree to a Trades Union Congress proposal that the union merge into the United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers. He remained secretary of the union's new shipwrights section until his retirement, at the end of 1964.

He also served as a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1954 to 1968. Carron became a Director of the Bank of England in 1963 and in 1967 he became a Director of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

The nations directive toward high skilled labor jobs, has promoted both growth and education to the region. The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the sole trade union federation which has a symbiotic relationship with the ruling party, comprises almost 99% of total organised labour.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The American Labor Party and the Socialist Party also nominated tickets. In New York City, a "Trades Union", an "Anti- Communist", and a "City Fusion" ticket were also nominated.

The New Zealand Building Trades Union (NZBTU) is a national trade union in New Zealand. It traces its roots back to a carpenters and joiners union in 1860. The NZBTU has 1400 members and is a member of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.

Youth unemployment in Ghana is a major issue in the country. The World Bank country statistics for youth unemployment in Ghana states that 65 percent of Ghanaian youth are unemployed. The Ghana Trades Union Congress states that yearly youth unemployment in Ghana increases by 250,000.

The union was founded in 1930 as the Vocational Educational Officers' Organisation, and it joined the Irish Trades Union Congress the following year. In 1955, it renamed itself as the Vocational Teachers' Association, and then in 1973 it became the "Teachers' Union of Ireland".

In 1940, he was the President of the Irish Trades Union Congress. In 1943, he was elected on the Labour Panel, and sat as an Irish Labour Party member of the Irish Senate, and re- elected in 1944 serving for five years in total.

Panic buying and long queues at garages were reported in Banbury, Christchurch and Crawley. The Unite trades union threatened a strike over health and safety standards earlier in March 2012. Unite represents around 2,000 tanker drivers, who deliver fuel to 90% of Britain's forecourts.

Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.1, pp.175-176 By 1901, the union was becoming more confident, and felt able to affiliate to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Representation Committee. Membership was over 31,000 by 1906.

In this role, he devised an index which was later adopted by the Department of Transport to calculate annual increases in taxi fares. During his time at the he also wrote a document called a National Framework for Taxis, which was referred to in the parliamentary debate around the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998. Hagger was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, then of the Communist Campaign Group, and its successor, the Communist Party of Britain. Hagger won election to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and in 1989 was elected as chair of the Trades Union Councils Joint Consultative Committee.

"Biographical Details: Kay Carberry", Trades Union Congress In 2003, she was appointed to the vacant post of Assistant General Secretary of the TUC."Women complete top team at TUC", Trades Union Congress, 22 January 2003 Carberry has held a number of other posts. She was a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Equal Opportunities Commission. She is a commissioner of the Low Pay Commission, a board member of Transport for London, a trustee of the People's History Museum, a director of TU Fund Managers, an alternate member of The Takeover Panel and an honorary fellow of St Hugh’s College Oxford.

In 1924, he was appointed Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress on account of his reputation for financial and administrative abilities. The TUC, though four to five million strong with over two hundred unions affiliated, had up to then been a largely ineffective body. As the General Secretary, Fred Bramley, was ill, Citrine took on a much wider role from the start. In time, he would transform it into a coherent and effective lobbying organisation for a growing movement. He acted enthusiastically as General Secretary during the General Strike of 1926 and was confirmed in that position after it, without opposition, at the Trades Union Congress of September 1926.

By the mid 1920s Irmgard Rasch had become a member of the (relatively) right-wing grouping in the party leadership, along with comrades such as August Thalheimer and Heinrich Brandler. As a more hardline group struggled successfully to strengthen their hold at the top, Rasch lost her trades union department position to Ruth Fischer who was, at this time, considered more in tune with the left-wing leadership. Rasch now took a post as trades union editor of the Communist Party daily newspaper "Klassenkampf" ("Class Sruggle") based in Halle. For 1927 she switched to the same position with the party's national newspaper, "Rote Fahne" ("Red Flag").

310 He chaired the conference which saw the union merge with others to form the Confederation of Health Service Employees, and was also elected as president of the new union.Frank Lynch, "Claude Bartlett – COHSE President", COHSE, 1972 In 1948, Bartlett was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and in 1960, he became President of the Trades Union Congress,Derek Moon, "T.U.C. "War" on the outlaw strikers", Glasgow Herald, 5 September 1960 the first holder of that post in many years to remain in non-trade union employment. He was appointed a CBE in 1960,"Supplement to the London Gazette", 1 January 1960, p.

Trades Union Congress called for al-Salman and Deeb's immediate release and "to hold to account those responsible for their arrest and possible abuse"."Release detained Bahraini teachers says TUC", Trades Union Congress, 4 August 2011, Retrieved 7 April 2012. The British teachers' union NASUWT also issued a statement in support of Abu Deeb and al-Salman, condemning their treatment as "brutal and inhumane". The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights issued a joint statement that they were "deeply concerned" by the "politicised sentence", also noting that the trial of civilians by a military tribunal was a violation of Bahraini law.

During the Second World War, with Tunisia subject to the French puppet government at Vichy, a ban on political and trades union activity made life difficult. Hached therefore volunteered for work with the Red Cross in order to look after the injured, a task which he undertook outside his working hours. In 1942 Tunisia became a significant theatre for the fighting between principal wartime belligerents and the requirements of the Vichy government lost their significance as local administrative responsibilities passed to the Free French colonial government. In 1943 Hached was recruited for government service which meant relocation to Sfax where he was able to resume his trades union activities.

Johanna Tesch was a couple of months short of her sixtieth birthday when the Nazis took power early in 1933. Membership of political parties (other than of the Nazi Party) quickly became illegal, and Richard Tesch, her husband, as well as her youngest son, Carl, lost their jobs at the trades union printing works when the SPD party newspaper, "Volksstimme" ("People's Voice") was closed down in March 1933. In October 1935 Carl Tesch, who had engaged in (now illegal) trades union training work, was obliged to emigrate to Switzerland. Richard and Johanna Tesch lived on in retirement at their home in Frankfurt's recently built Riederwald quarter.

The next year she became a member of the newly formed Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD / Young Communist League), later becoming president of its Mariendorf district branch. She joined the ZdA (trades union) in 1923 and in 1924, the year of her nineteenth birthday, she became a member of Communist Party itself. She also attended a Lyceum (college) and completed a commercial training, which she was able to combine with trades union organisational activities in the ZdA. Around 1930 Luise Kraushaar took a secretarial post with the Communist Party, working for Leo Roth, a party officer identified in some quarters as "Viktor", with links to Moscow.

Winifred Lucy BaddeleyEngland, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (2 December 19041939 England and Wales Register - 20 July 1972) was a British trade unionist. Born in Sale, then in Cheshire,Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Winifred Baddeley", Report of the 104th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.310 Baddeley worked for many years as an electrical coil winder at the Associated Electrical Industries works in Old Trafford."Elected to TUC Council", The Guardian, 4 September 1963 She joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) and gradually rose through the ranks, becoming a shop steward in 1941, then branch chair, chair of the women's works committee, and district representative.

He became Executive Director upon the retirement of Party veteran Mr Lau Ping Sum Pearce in early 2013. He relinquished his full-time role in the National Trades Union Congress and became Advisor to the United Workers of Petroleum Industries and the Reuters Local Employees Union.

Eamonn Lynch was an Irish Labour Party politician, barrister and trade union official. He was the General Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1928. He was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1938 on the Labour Panel. He did not contest the 1943 Seanad election.

PWIF contracted W. Morgan of the London School of Economics to carry out a survey of the global tea industry. Barrett's secondment was extended and in December 1958 he was sent to Tanganyika as the PWIF representative there.Report of Proceedings at the 91st Annual Trades Union Congress.

This was rejected, and the council continued on a radical course, supporting the Hands Off Russia campaign, and organising the 1926 UK general strike in the city. It has remained active ever since, and in recent years has been known as the Bradford Trades Union Council.

330 After his final term as president, Allen was employed as the union's organising secretary. He was promoted to assistant general secretary in 1936 before, in 1940, becoming general secretary. At the same time, he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

In the same year, he was elected to the Parliamentary Committee of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC), and in 1911, he served as its president. Following his year as president, he became treasurer of the organisation, serving until 1918.Donal Nevin, Trade Union Century, pp.

Agnes Anderson Milne, c. 1897 Agnes Anderson Milne (1 December 1851 – 1919) was a founding member of the South Australian branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, a member of the first executive of the Working Women’s Trades Union, and South Australia’s second female factory inspector.

Wrack was re-elected. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in 2006 and has been re-elected since. He was subsequently elected onto the TUC executive committee. He was returned unopposed for a third term as FBU general secretary in 2014.

The Electrical Trades Union of Australia (ETU) is an Australian trade union. The ETU is a division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU), and is the largest of the three divisions. Under State Government laws, the union often exists as a separately registered union.

"CUMMINGS, David Charles", Who Was Who He was also active in the Independent Labour Party.James Edward Mortimer, History of the Boilermakers' Society, Vol.3, p.22 He was General Secretary of the union from 1900, and in 1906, he served as President of the Trades Union Congress.

While general secretary, he also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He retired from his union posts in 1947, joining the board of directors of Cable & Wireless. In 1949, he was appointed to the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission, serving until 1958.

Halimah worked as a legal officer at the National Trades Union Congress, and became the director of its legal services department in 1992. She was appointed as a director of the Singapore Institute of Labour Studies (now known as the Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies) in 1999.

By 1960, it had 40,000 members, and had affiliated to the Miners' International Federation and the Ghana Trades Union Congress. Membership of the union has gradually fallen, and by 2014 it stood at 16,000. In addition to its industrial activities, it formed the Golden Pride Savings and Loans Company.

From around 1920 he was organising secretary of the Furnishing Trades Union and, having moved to New South Wales, he was involved in the Labor Party. From 1925 to 1949 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Archer died in Sydney in 1956.

The Pentonville Five were five shop stewards jailed in July 1972 by the National Industrial Relations Court for refusing to obey a court order to stop picketing a container depot in East London. Their arrest and imprisonment led to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) calling a general strike.

Werner Hansen (31 July 1905 – 15 June 1971) was a German Social democratic politician and trades unionist.: After 1933 he stayed in Germany for several years undertaking illegal resistance work, and emigrating only in 1937. He was able to return and resume his trades union career in 1945.

Herbert Lionel Bullock (1885 - September 1967) was a British trade unionist. Born in Bristol, Bullock began working at the age of eleven.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1967 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.436 He joined the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers early in life.

The Confederation of British Industry, which has created its own climate change task force, welcomed the proposed Bill, stating that it combined two vital elements, long-term clarity on policy direction and flexibility in its delivery. Support for the Bill was also given by the Trades Union Congress.

Fiji Teachers Union (FTU) is a union representing elementary and secondary education teachers in Fiji. It is a member of the Fiji Trades Union Congress,Neelesh Gounder, "A Long Road to Unity," Fiji Times, January 12, 2006. and Education International."Membership List: Asia-Pacific," Education International, no date.

Murray started as a manager for a Liverpool catering firm. He was a Trades Union Congress (TUC) employee from 1947, when he joined as an assistant in the economics department. Seven years later he was promoted to head of the department. He was elected assistant general-secretary in 1969.

The Royal College of Pathologists is a professional membership organisation, to maintain the standards and reputation of British pathology, through training, assessments, examinations and professional development. It is a registered charity and is not a trades union. Its 11,000 members work in hospital laboratories, universities and industry worldwide.

This proved successful, once it was part of winning a pay increase in 1923. The union long remained outside the mainstream of the British trade union movement, but it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1964. In 1972, it merged into the General and Municipal Workers' Union.

1, p.179 The union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1966. It was also affiliated to the Federation of Post Office Unions, the National Federation of Professional Workers, and the Postal Telegraph and Telephone International. In 1981, it took its final name, the "Communication Managers' Association".

It was later published as a book, with the snappier title "Woman as a person" ("Die Frau als Persönlichkeit"). The book was officially tolerated, but largely ignored. Between 1965 and 1969 she served as honorary (i.e. unpaid) of the Women's Commission on Trades Union Research at the Humboldt.

Most of its affiliates were small, local unions representing skilled workers. It affiliated to the British Trades Union Congress in 1882,Ian Budge and Cornelius O'Leary, Belfast: Approach to Crisis: A Study of Belfast Politics 1613-1970, p.133 but achieved little and struggled to survive during the 1880s.

Although individual trades unions continued to exist in the Soviet occupation zone, the highly centralised power structure being developed for the zone meant that union power was heavily centralised in the Trades Union Congress (FDGB / Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund). This meant that from now on Groh-Kummerlöw's position within the FDGB would form the basis for a 25-year career in national politics. In February 1946, in addition to her existing duties, she became a member of the FDGB National Executive, a membership which she retained till 1963. She was particularly active in the Women's Committee of the National Executive Committee, promoting increased inclusion of women both in the country's paid work force and in trades union organisations.

Behind the scenes the "Circle of Ten" exercised a powerful influence over key personnel selections and strategic decisions taken by the trades union movement. During the later 1950s the circle disintegrated as the members' socio-political ambitions diverged. The West German election result of 1949 saw Konrad Adenauer's CDU-FDP coalition narrowly winning power, which was both a disappointment for SPD supporters (such as Otto Brenner) and a surprise for commentators and others from across the political spectrum. For Brenner and the trades union movement more widely the result represented a temporary deferral but not an abolition for their shared objective of a rapid and fundamental transformation of social relationships in the newly launched German Federal Republic (West Germany).

The UWT was refused permission to join the Trades Union Congress in 1974. The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 made it unlawful to maintain a single-sex union. As a result, the NAS proposed a merger with the UWT. The UWT leadership opposed this, but were outvoted at the union's annual conference.

Love represented NUPE on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. She also served on the executive of the Scottish Labour Party, on which she successfully argued for the introduction of a minimum wage, and on the Labour Middle East Council, where she worked to raise awareness of Palestinian people.

The UK Association of Organised Trades was founded in Sheffield in July 1866. It was an important forerunner to the Trades Union Congress. The organisation was largely inspired by William Dronfield, who was elected as its Secretary. It initially represented over 200,000 trade unionists, organised through trades councils or national unions.

Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress (1955), p.118 By the late 1960s, Charlesworth had become concerned that changes in the industry threatened the union's future. As a result, in October 1969, the union merged into the larger National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers, becoming its Nottingham (Finishers) District.

That year, he was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Keys served on numerous committees, including those of the Central Arbitration Committee, the Commission for Racial Equality, the Institute of Manpower Studies and the European Social Fund. Keys retired in 1985, and died five years later.

Geoffrey Goodman, "Obituary: Kenneth Graham", The Guardian, 23 July 2005 Graham joined the Trades Union Congress in 1961, rising to become head of the organisation department by 1966. He was appointed as Assistant General Secretary in 1977, then as Deputy General Secretary in 1985, serving until his retirement two years later.

In 1926 he became party secretary for trades union matters in the Lower Rhine region. In 1928 regional elections he was elected a member of the Prussian regional legislative assembly (Landtag), representing the Düsseldorf-East electoral district. In 1929 he took charge of party organisation in the Lower Rhine district.

I, pp.11-24 and the London tailors during their strike in 1867. It was represented at the short-lived United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, and also in early meetings of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1872, it hosted the congress, and Leatherland served as President of the TUC.

"Parliament", The Times, 18 June 1936. The Labour Party nominated him to the Colonial Office's Educational Advisory Committee in 1936, on which he served for nine years. In 1937, he was a founding member of the Trades Union Congress Colonial Affairs Committee, and in 1940 he founded the Fabian Colonial Bureau.

It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain. Its early archives are held in the London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.

3, pp.344-349 The union affiliated to the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress. It was reluctant to merge into the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association (NAFTA), the main union for the industry. In 1969, it finally merged into NAFTA's successor, the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives.

Unlike many other unions, NUCW membership remained steady at around 12,000 workers, and in 1928 it was renamed as the "National Union of Public Employees" (NUPE). Wills succeeded in affiliating the union to the Trades Union Congress and consequently increased its profile. He died in 1933, while still in office.

ASLEF succeeded in getting more locomotive drivers and firemen to join a trades union, but it has never succeeded in recruiting all drivers or firemen. In 1900, the ASRS wanted amalgamation,Raynes, 1921, p. 124. but ASLEF proposed federation with the drivers and firemen of the ASRS.Raynes, 1921, p. 110.

He was a co-founder and secretary of the "Communist Committee for German Free Trades Union Miners" ("...kommunistische Ausschuss freigewerkschaftlicher Bergarbeiter Deutschlands"). In 1938 he was elected to membership of the executive of "The Miners' International" ("Bergarbeiterinternationale"). Sources also refer to widespread education and propaganda work in the Rhine region.

Impressed by Tupper's skills, Wilson employed him as a private detective, and then in various union roles. Tupper was prominent in organising the 1911 seamen's strike."Captain Edward Tupper", Annual Report of the 1943 Trades Union Congress, p.149 By this time, he had invented a colourful history for himself.

On 8 March 1910 she joined a trades union: she remained a lifelong member. Encouraged and supported by her Social Democratic landlords, she learned to read and write. Vienna faced a general strike in 1911. Hanna Sturm took part in a large demonstration along the "Ringstraße" (Ring Boulevard) around the city centre.

Gemma Tumelty (born 20 October 1980), is a British Labour Party and Trades Union activist, who was President of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 2006 to 2008. She was the NUS National Secretary from 2005 to 2006, and a member of its National Executive Committee for two years before that.

In 1939, the union was a founder of the Civil Service Alliance, and in 1943 a founder of the Federation of Ministry of Labour Staffs. It joined the Trades Union Congress in 1948. Membership of the union was over 17,000 by 1973, when it merged into the Civil and Public Services Association.

Hall served on various national and international committees, and was a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1954. He was also secretary of the Leigh and District Trades Council. Under union rules, he retired in 1960, on reaching the age of 65, and he died the following year.

Terence Bowman, People's Champion, p.129 Richardson was elected as Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1901,Donal Nevin, Trade Union Century, p.217 serving until 1909, when he resigned to become the superintendent at the Dublin Labour Exchange.Vincent Kinane, A history of the Dublin University Press, 1734-1976, p.

Balta's parents were both born in Australia but each is of Croatian heritage, with ties to the Split and Vukovar regions. His father Ivan is an electrician by trade and in 2019 served as the assistant secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia. Outside of football, Balta studies a certificate in carpentry.

During the 1950s, the union engaged with compulsory arbitration, but ended this in 1960, feeling it achieved little. In 1965, the union threatened to strike in order to improve wages. In 1970, the union became the Ceramic and Allied Trades Union,Wolodymyr Maksymiw et al, The British Trade Union Directory (1990), p.

The national joint Council of the Labour Party, the Parliamentary Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress passed a resolution expressing their sense of great importance of the proposals of general and simultaneous disarmament which was put forward by the USSR delegation at the Preparatory Disarmament Commission in Geneva on 30 November 1927.

Bill Speirs began his career with the Scottish Trades Union Congress when he was appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary in 1978. He became Deputy General Secretary in 1988, succeeding John Henry. In 1998, he became General Secretary, following Campbell Christie. He retired from the STUC in 2006 due to ill health.

When the Fuller Company was implicated in the corruption of the building trades union leader, Samuel Parks, its stock fell. Board members dumped their stock and left the company, but Fuller was buying up stock at the same time. He took control of the company, naming a new board which made Black president.

The Canadian Union of Skilled Workers (CUSW) is a blended skilled trades union based in Canada. It was founded in February 1999 and was a former local (Local 1788) of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which then represented Ontario employees of Ontario Hydro. It is affiliated with the Confederation of Canadian Unions.

Wong moved to Hong Kong with his family after the Second World War. He was involved in education industry and opened branches of schools. He became the candidate of the 1969 Urban Council election for the Hong Kong Civic Association. He was endorsed by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council.

In 2004 it received an income of £112.95, all of which was spent on administrative expenses.Trades Union Certification Officer Return 2004 It was affiliated to the Trades Union Congress until its removal from the list of recognised Trades Unions on 7 August 2007 on the grounds that it had ceased to exist.

The Convention was vigorously opposed by the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress and never really got off the ground; eventually it was disowned by the Communist Party of Great Britain itself in January 1942. There were also proposals for regional People's Conventions, including a Midlands Convention and a Scottish Convention.

The National Farmers Union' (NFU) is one of Fiji's largest trade unions. It was launched in Labasa in July 1978 under the auspices of the Fiji Trades Union Congress, with Mahendra Chaudhry as its first General Secretary. The union was initially based in Vanua Levu but gradually extended its operations to Viti Levu.

Rauscher's father was a railway worker. He himself embarked on an apprenticeship as a mechanic and found work in a munitions factory. Despite his youth he was elected a trades union official. He took part in the wave demonstrations and strikes that broke out in Vienna directly after the First World War.

He joined the Trades Union Congress as an economist in 1969, and rejoined it in 1973 following his stint as a lecturer. He was appointed a policy and research officer in NALGO in 1977, leaving its successor UNISON in 1994. Hopkins was a councillor on Luton Borough Council from 1972 to 1976.

Duncan Weldon is a former political advisor and journalist. He was appointed as BBC Newsnights Economics and Business editor in 2014. Weldon joined the Labour Party at age 18. Prior to joining the BBC, he worked as an advisor for Harriet Harman MP and as an economist at the Trades Union Congress.

Here he met John Burns and Henry Hyde Champion, who encouraged him to publish a pamphlet calling for the working day to be limited to eight hours. Mann formed an organisation, the Eight Hour League, which successfully pressured the Trades Union Congress to adopt the eight-hour day as a key goal.

Aman was a former unionist and had served as branch chairman of the 40,000 member United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries. In December 2002, he was dismissed from this post after he refused a union directive to renounce his membership of SDA. The union is affiliated with the National Trades Union Congress.

In 1959 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Trades Union Federation, a position he retained till 1961 when he was appointed to the Chairmanship of the Central Committee of the national People's Solidarity organisation. Between 1969 and 1971 he was also a member of the Presidium of the East German National Front.

He was re-elected in 2016 for a further five-year term.FDA, "Dave Penman biography " Since September 2012, he had also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.Trades Union Congress, "TUC General Council members " In his spare time, Penman supports Partick Thistle F.C. and enjoys crime fiction and the theatre.

The discussions over the party's direction split the LSAP again. On 2 May 1970, Henry Cravatte was ejected as President by a trades union-led coup. In March 1971, centrist elements, led by Cravatte, split to create the Social Democratic Party. Those who left included 6 Deputies and most of the party leadership.

This enabled it to maintain membership levels despite a reduction in the number of jobs in the industry, due to increased mechanisation. In 1932, on the suggestion of the Trades Union Congress, it merged into the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union, which was renamed as the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.

In 2011 BFE (then GBFTE) joined with the BSC (British Society of Cinematographers), GBCT (Guild of British Camera Technicians) and BECTU (the UK Industry Technicians trades union) to form a Collecting Society - Screen Craft Rights - to receive these payments from Germany and other countries and distribute them to UK Cinematographers, Designers and Editors.

There were also periods of unemployment. He first joined a trades union in 1923. In 1928 Kurt Wagner learned the trade of a cobble stone-setter with the Chemnitz Tram Company (Chemnitzer Straßenbahngesellschaft), and he then worked at this craft till 1933. In December 1932 he became a member of the Communist party.

In 1955, he was also chair of the scrutineers at the Trades Union Congress. He retired at the end of 1960, but in 1963 he was appointed to the committee of the Joint Industrial Council for the printing industries. In 1957, Morrison was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

A rally by UNISON in support of better terms and conditions of work for their members Trade unions in the United Kingdom were first decriminalised under the recommendation of a Royal Commission in 1867, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees. Legalised in 1871, the Trade Union Movement sought to reform socio- economic conditions for working men in British industries, and the trade unions' search for this led to the creation of a Labour Representation Committee which effectively formed the basis for today's Labour Party, which still has extensive links with the Trade Union Movement in Britain. Margaret Thatcher's governments weakened the powers of the unions in the 1980s, in particular by making it more difficult to strike legally, and some within the British trades union movement criticised Tony Blair's Labour government for not reversing some of Thatcher's changes. Most British unions are members of the TUC, the Trades Union Congress (founded in 1867), or where appropriate, the Scottish Trades Union Congress or the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, which are the country's principal national trade union centres.

Battersea and Wandsworth TUC is a Trades Union Council (also known as a Trades Council) covering the London Borough of Wandsworth in South West London. It is one of the best organised and resourced TUCs in the UK thanks to its trading arm BWTUC (Trading) Ltd which runs the Workers Beer Company and a range of other commercial enterprises to raise money in an ethical way that can then be spent on the activities of the BWTUC. The Trades Union Council owns an organising centre in Earlsfield and employs 3 full-time staff. Its organising and campaigning priorities are determined by the TUC's General Council (composed of delegates from over 50 affiliated Trade Union Branches) and Executive Committee, elected annually by those delegates.

However, following police strikes in 1918 & 1919, where 70 prison officers at Wormwood Scrubs and a few from Birmingham joined the strike, all of whom were dismissed, trade unions of police and prison workers were made illegal. Instead, a representative body, the Prison Officer's Representation Board was created, but this was seen as an inadequate measure to defend prison officers' interests. This was appointed by and responsible to the Home Office, could not call a strike and were not permitted to have formal links with other labour organisations through the Trades Union Congress or Scottish Trades Union Congress. Whilst the Representation Board failed to secure most of improvements in prison officers conditions it argued for, it did secure the replacement of the term 'warder' by 'officer'.

As a result, he was sacked from his job, but the Machine Workers agreed to make his role with the union full-time. He proved highly successful, increasing membership from 371 in 1885 to 5,200 by 1909. Arrandale was also politically active, and was elected to Manchester City Council in 1895; he also served as a justice of the peace. He was the TUC's representative to the American Federation of Labour in 1902, served on the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC from 1908,Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr Matthew Arrandale, JP", Annual Report of the 1915 Trades Union Congress was on the Management Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and was vice-president of the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades.

BECTU was founded in 1991 with the merger of the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians and the Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance, the history of which can be traced back to 1890. In July 1995, the Film Artistes' Association (FAA), founded in 1927 as a trade union for film extras merged to become a sub-division of BECTU. BECTU's affiliations included the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Union Network International, the General Federation of Trade Unions, the Federation of Entertainment Unions and the Labour Party. Gerry Morrissey was elected General Secretary in February 2007, after the position had been left vacant due to the death of Roger Bolton, who died from cancer in November 2006.

Initially, the post of president was elected at the annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) itself, and would serve just for the duration of the congress. Early standing orders stated that preference had to be given to a candidate from the city where the congress was being held; they were not necessarily well-known figures.Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1874 Trades Union Congress In 1900, the standing orders were changed to state that the presidency would be filled by the person who had chaired the Parliamentary Committee over the previous year. As a result, before 1900, numerous people served as Chair of the Parliamentary Committee without becoming President; after this date, Presidents were prominent figures in the national trade union movement.

The History of the TUC 1868-1968: Part One 1868-1899 A keen trade unionist, Wood played a prominent role in two national union conferences: in Sheffield in 1866, and in London in 1867.A. E. Musson, The Congress of 1868: The Origins and Establishment of the Trades Union Congress With Samuel Caldwell Nicholson, he was inspired to create the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in frustration at the indifference of the Congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science to trade union activities. As Nicholson did not attend the first meeting of the TUC, Wood was elected as its first Secretary. He held the post for only one year, after which he was replaced by George Potter.

Alexander Walkden, long- term general secretary of the RCA, stood down in 1936, and Stott was elected as his replacement, also winning election to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. However, he retired from all his posts in 1940, spending the remainder of World War II on the Advisory Council on Reserved Occupations.

In 1955, he received a scholarship from Britain's Trades Union Congress to attend Ruskin College, University of Oxford, where he studied industrial management. Upon his graduation in 1956, he returned to Kenya and joined politics at a time when the British government was gaining control over the Kenya Land Freedom Army Mau Mau uprising.

Thanaletchimi is the current President of the Healthcare Services Employees Union (HSEU) after being elected to the position in 1998 and is also an elected member of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Central Committee. She is also the Chairperson for the NTUC Women's Committee, the Labour Movement's Healthcare Cluster and the NTUC Membership Committee.

Trade Union Confederation of Burundi (, CSB) is the smaller of the two national trades union federations active in Burundi. It is distinct from Confederation of Trade Unions of Burundi (Confédération des Syndicats du Burundi, COSYBU). Both the COSYBU and CSB are affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The CSB was founded in 1991.

89 In 1893, he was elected to the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress,Neil Rainford, Statism, Voluntarism and the Eight-hour Day, p.56 where he was a prominent opponent of socialism.Roy Gregory, The Miners and British Politics 1906–1914, p. 104 In his spare time, Cowey was a Primitive Methodist lay preacher.

Rachel Devine in 1911, attending the Scottish Trade Unions Congress in Dundee Rachel Devine (1875–1960) was a jute weaver and trade unionist. A founder member of the Dundee and District Union of Jute and Flax Workers who later became its president, she often went to the Scottish Trades Union Congress as her union's delegate.

He was succeeded by John Mowbray. In 2001 he was succeeded by Peter Pendle, by which time it had adopted its final name. By 2002, it had 3,250 members and affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the General Federation of Trade Unions.Arthur Ivor Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, p.

65 In 1839, the National Community and the Association of All Classes merged to form the Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists.Royle (1998) p.95 Despite its name, the Grand National was never able to gain significant support outside LondonW. H. Oliver, "The Consolidated Trades' Union of 1834", The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol.

The State Department's refusal to reprimand Hendrickson, along with their expulsion of the Singaporean diplomat, sparked a rare protest in Singapore by the National Trades Union Congress; they drove buses around the U.S. embassy, held a rally attended by four thousand workers, and issued a statement deriding the U.S. as "sneaky, arrogant, and untrustworthy".

13 then 1936, became its general secretary. Also that year, he was elected to the management committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU). In 1940, he was additionally elected as secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Albert Knowles", Annual Report of the 1953 Trades Union Congress, pp.

Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of British Trade Unions, vol.III, p.318 The union was long associated with radical politics, and it affiliated to the First International in 1866. It was also an early affiliate of the Trades Union Congress. Adam Weiler, a prominent Marxist, was an executive member during the 1870s.

Following their arrest, a rolling series of strikes began to cause work stoppages until there was virtually an unofficial national strike. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) then called for an official national strike on 31 July, demanding the release of the five shop stewards. Thousands of striking workers marched through North London to Pentonville Prison.

To emphasise its long standing relationship with the trades union movement, UIA registered Union Insurance Association as a trading name in 2015 and, to emphasise the mutual, customer-focused nature of the business as well as the strong relationships with union partners, it rebranded as UIA Mutual – insurance for trade union members in 2016.

Following the GPMU's merger with Amicus in 2004, he became Deputy General Secretary. Amicus then merged with the Transport & General Workers Union in May 2007 to form Unite. He was president of the Trades Union Congress in 1997. Between 2003 and 2008 he was chairman of the Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation.

Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.85 Originally part of the Irish Trades Union Congress, the union was a founding member of the rival Congress of Irish Unions. The two confederations later merged to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, of which the union maintained membership.

New York: International Publishers, 1926; pp. 33-34. In 1903, Hayes was chosen as the delegate of the AFL at the convention of the British Trades Union Congress. Hayes was a bitter opponent of the Industrial Workers of the World from the time of its founding in 1905, lending his support instead to the AFL.

While Coulson boycotted early meetings of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), partly in protest at Howell's involvement, he recognised its growing importance and served as President of the TUC in 1881. He used his presidential address to denounce protectionism, Parliamentary involvement in trade matters, and wars resulting from British imperialism.Histoire Sociale, nos.23-24, p.

The union's head office is in London, UK; its General Secretary is Mark Dickinson. The union also has offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Basel, Switzerland. Nautilus International is affiliated to the International Transport Workers' Federation, International Federation of Shipmasters Associations, the UK Trades Union Congress, the Dutch Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging and the Nautilus Federation.

Mawby was educated at Long Lawford school. He worked as an electrician, and entered politics through his involvement with trade unionism. He was an official in the Rugby branch of the Electrical Trades Union and became the first president of the Conservative Trade Unionists' national advisory committee. Mawby was a Rugby Borough councillor in 1952.

In 1949, he became the organisation's assistant labour adviser, then its labour adviser in 1954, retiring in 1969.Co-operative Congress, Report of Congress Proceedings (1985), p.59 In 1965, he represented the Co-operative Union at the Trades Union Congress, and was awarded the Gold Badge of Congress in recognition of his service.

Courey earned his degree in business management, and later became president of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Union Local 214 in Sioux City. In 2006 Courey was found to have a malignant schwannoma tumor in his back. He succumbed to the cancer nineteen months later, leaving behind three daughters and a son.

Annie Kenney, Marie M. Roberts, Tamae Mizuta. A Militant (Routledge, 1994) Intro. Mary Blathwayt planting a tree at Suffragette's Rest with Vera Holme, Jessie and Annie Kenney in 1909 Jessie Kenney worked in a cotton mill from the age of thirteen, along with her sisters Annie, Alice and Jane (Jennie) becoming involved in the trades union there.

Richard Murphy (born 21 March 1958) is a British chartered accountant and political economist who campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and tax evasion. He advises the Trades Union Congress on economics and taxation, and is a long- standing member of the Tax Justice Network. He is a Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University London.

Alan Campbell, British trade unions and industrial politics, p.173John Lovell and Benjamin Charles Roberts, A Short History of the Trades Union Congress, pp.96-106 In 1923, Tomkins was elected as the union's chairman and, in 1927, he became its full- time London organiser. After serving as assistant general secretary, he was elected as general secretary in 1941.

On 10 January 2006, the Fijian government criticized the International Labour Organization for what it said was the organization's unfair treatment of the Fiji Islands Congress of Trade Unions (FICTU). Labour Minister Kenneth Zinck said the government had received a complaint from FICTU about the ILO's discrimination against it in favour of the rival Fiji Trades Union Congress.

From 1953, he also served on the executive of the Labour Research Department (LRD), becoming president in 1955. Charlesworth retired from the trades council in 1970. In 1971, he was awarded the Silver Medal of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Charlesworth retired as president of the LRD in 1982, but was made honorary president.

In 1896 Walter married the trades union and feminist activist Marie Hüni. Between 1898 and 1903 Emil Walter served as a town councillor in Winterthur, and from 1902 till 1920 he served as a councillor at the cantonal level. He worked as a part-time council employee between 1903 and 1910 with responsibilities involving the police service.

While still a young man he joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He obtained a job as a mechanic/fitter with the railways, working on the network's signal boxes. In 1912 he left the SPD, as his political sympathies moved towards Anarcho- syndicalism. During the immediate prewar years he was an employee of the Trades Union Press.

He was also elected to succeed Finney as president of the Midland Miners' Federation, to which the North Staffordshire Miners were affiliated. He frequently attended the Trades Union Congress, and in 1937 was its delegate to the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. Hancock retired in 1941. In his spare time, he served as a Methodist lay preacher.

UĦM Voice of the Workers is a Maltese trades union which organises staff in health and social care. It changed its name from Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin in 2015. It supported a doctors strike against the transfer of hospitals to Steward Global Healthcare and a dispute by public healthcare pharmacists demanding better training opportunities, both happening during January 2018.

He resigned his seat in 1948, and the resulting by-election was won by Labour's Lance Mallalieu. In 1937, he became the industrial officer of NUGMW, and served as its General Secretary from 1946–61. He was also President of the Trades Union Congress from 1957 to 1958. He was a founding member of the British Productivity Council.

He resigned from Parliament in 1920. Out of Parliament, Richards devoted his time to the SWMF, and the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB). He represented them on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1925, and served as President of the MFGB from 1929 to 1930. Richards was made a Privy Councillor in 1918.

At some stage, probably quite early on, he joined the "Building Workers' Union" ("Syndicat Unique du bâtiment" / SUB). In 1949 he started working in the workers' cooperative, "Le Carrelage à Vanves" which had been founded back in 1936 by the Communist Party ("Parti communiste français" / PCF) and the CGT (trades union). Becoming unemployed, he joined the PCF and CGT.

Alongside this, he served as Treasurer of the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades for three years, then as President. In 1920 he visited Belfast as part of a TUC delegation enquiring into the workplace expulsions. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921, becoming President of the TUC in 1924.

She set up a socialist student group at the university and joined, in November 1918, the Spartacus League, staying with it when it relaunched itself as the German Communist Party. In the middle of 1919 she became a full-time party official, initially in the agriculture sector and then, till 1924, in the trades union department.

Born in Liverpool in 1956, Ryder studied Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and then Latin American Studies at Liverpool. He speaks French and Spanish as well as his mother tongue, English. He started his professional career in 1981 as an assistant in the International Department of the Trades Union Congress in London.

Claude Bartlett (1897-1 April 1972) was a British trade union leader. Bartlett worked in asylums and joined the National Asylum Workers' Union in 1919. He became President of the union in 1927, which in 1931 was renamed the "Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union", all the while remaining a hospital employee.Report of 104th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.

Civil servants employed by the Ministry of Education are organised into several Unions, including the Singapore Teachers' Union, Singapore Chinese Teachers' Union, Singapore Malay Teachers' Union and Singapore Tamil Teachers' Union for Education Officers; and the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees for the non-Education Officers. All these unions are affiliates of the National Trades Union Congress.

Edward Duxbury (born 1863) was a British trade unionist. He held important roles in both the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress. Born in Manchester, Duxbury began working in a spinning factory in the Rossendale Valley when he was eight years old. Initially a doffer, he gradually worked his way up to become a loom overlooker.

On leaving school in 1962, Barron became an electrician at the Maltby colliery. He spent the next 23 years working in the coal industry. In 1982, he became president of the Rotherham Trades Union Congress. He was a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), who later expelled him for speaking out against Arthur Scargill.

In 1885, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) was held in Southport, and Threlfall was elected to serve as its President.Frank Herbert Rose, The coming force: the labour movement, p.46 At the following congress, he convinced the TUC to form a Labour Electoral Committee, to sponsor candidates for election to Parliament.Keith Laybourn, The rise of socialism in Britain, c.

She was President of the Trades Union Congress in 1996. She was a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1985–92 and the Low Pay Commission 2000–05. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours. From 1996 to 2001 she was Treasurer of the Labour Party.

McArthur held the seat at the January 1910 general election, but died in office later that year, triggering another by-election. Hill did not stand for Parliament again, but became general secretary of the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders in 1909, and served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1917.

The plans to film the shows at Madison Square Garden were threatened when the local trades union tried to block the British film crew from working. After the band's attorneys negotiated with the union, the crew was allowed to film the concerts.Welch, Chris (2002) Peter Grant: The Man Who Led Zeppelin, London: Omnibus Press. , pp. 112-138.

By that year the union's membership had grown from 32,200 in 1913 to 57,184. In January 1924 he led a nine-day national locomotivemen's strike against worsening working conditions. He was a founder member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921. He attended the TUC's first delegation to visit the Soviet Union in 1924.

Robert Allan was a Scottish trade unionist who served as leader of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). Allan worked as a compositor in Edinburgh, and joined the Social Democratic Federation. He was active in the Scottish Typographical Association (STA) and the Edinburgh Trades Council. He attended the STUC from its foundation, always taking a prominent part in debates.

In November 2014, the Scottish Government announced its intention to set up an independent commission. Proposals for a fairer system of local government finance had been in the SNP’s 2011 manifesto. The commission was announced as part of the first legislative programme introduced by Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s First Minister. The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) welcomed the plans.

It was as a fireman that he became more active politically, through the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), and he joined the Labour Party in 1960. He served as a member of Ayr Town Council from 1962 to 1970, and was Head of Organisation and Social Services at the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) from 1968 to 1970.

The Larkin-O'Brien feud still continued, and worsened over time. In the 1940s the hatred caused a split in the Labour party and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. In 1944 O'Brien left and founded the National Labour Party. O'Brien also withdrew the ITGWU from the Irish Trades Union Congress and set up his own congress.

She joined the Communist Party and the Revolutionary Trades Union Opposition ("Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition" / RGO) movement in 1931. In January 1933 the Nazis took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. She continued to work for the Communists which was now by definition illegal. She was arrested in March 1933 and held briefly.

The party first came to public attention when members plastered the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress with anti- union posters.Institute for the Study of Conflict, Sources of conflict in British industry, p. 34. It was also strongly opposed to the Communist Party of Great Britain.F. W. S. Craig, Minor Parties at British Parliamentary Elections 1885–1974, p. 128.

The fishing industry based in Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world, declined dramatically towards the end of the 20th century. In 1973, the union was expelled from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), for registering with the government, in defiance of TUC policy. It merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1976.

Daniel Fairchild Calhoun, The United Front!: The TUC and the Russians, 1923-1928, p.46 George Isaacs, who was elected as Chair in 1944, similarly resigned to accept a government post, and was replaced by the vice-president, Ebby Edwards, who had presided over the previous year's congress.Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1945 Trades Union Congress, p.

He was elected as the pit's checkweighman, and also became active in the South Yorkshire Miners' Association (SYMA).Joyce Bellamy and John Saville, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. II, pp. 30-31 Bailey was a founder of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, a split from the SYMA, and represented it on the Trades Union Congress in 1883, 1887 and 1889.

As leader, Challener decided to bring the RCA into the mainstream British trade union movement; he registered it as a trade union in 1900, and arranged for it to affiliate to the Trades Union Congress in 1903. As a result, he was able to increase membership from 537, to 4,500, by 1906. Challener was also politically active.

The union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1918. In 1922, it merged with the National Society of Dyers and Finishers and the General Union of Weavers and Textile Workers, forming the General Union of Textile Workers. Lockwood had remained secretary of the union throughout its existence, and became the Bradford District Secretary of the new union.

STU also works through collaboration, cooperation and dialogues with the Ministry of Education. STU also organises various workshops, courses and seminars for teachers. STU is an affiliate of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), a member of the ASEAN Council of Teachers and the Education International. Educare Co-operative Limited is a co-operative of Singapore Teachers' Union.

In March 2012 Unite trades union warned it was considering a strike over health and safety standards. Unite represents around 2,000 tanker drivers, who deliver fuel to 90% of Britain's forecourts. Although no strike took place, Government action precipitated panic-buying and a woman was very seriously injured after following a minister's advice to store extra petrol.

In 1939/40, he served as Mayor of Bridgwater.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: W. J. Farthing", Annual Report of the 1955 Trades Union Congress, p.310 He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Frome, and held the seat until the constituency disappeared, and he retired, at the 1950 general election.

Scottish Trades Union Congress, "Eighty-third Scottish TUC Women's Conference", p.30 From 1939 to 1944, Stewart served on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, and she served on a variety of government committees. In 1947, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. She died in Glasgow in 1965.

"Supplement to the London Gazette", 11 June 1982, p.B10 He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1983, but lost his seat the following year."Elections: Sapper loses seat", The Guardian, 5 September 1984 He also served on the executive of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.AUEW Engineering Section Journal (1985), p.

The Community and District Nursing Association (CDNA) was a trade union representing nurses and healthcare assistants in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1939 as the District Nursing Association. In 1971, it was renamed as the "Community and District Nursing Association". It affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, and membership had risen to 3,763 by 2007.

The meeting resolved to found the Trades Union Congress. Dronfield supported the Reform League, and in order to further labour interests, he convinced Anthony John Mundella to stand as the Liberal Party candidate for Sheffield in the 1868 general election. Mundella took a seat. Also in 1868, Dronfield became the secretary of the newly formed National Education League.

Located in Seattle, WA and chartered February 24, 1941Official website Cement Mason's Local 528 is part of the oldest building trades union, the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association (OPCMIA). Local 528 currently has over 1,600 members. Over 1300 are cement masons and over 300 are plasterers. 236 are cement mason apprentices, and approximately 56 are plasterer apprentices.

That year, he also joined the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, and he was chairman of the party in 1976/77. McGarvey died suddenly in 1977, and Chalmers took McGarvey's place on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).John Kerr, "Sir Daniel McGarvey - 'boots' to union boss", The Guardian, 27 April 1977, p.

Later that year he traveled to Moscow where he took part on the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International ("Comintern") and was elected to various committees and commissions. Back in Germany, in 1929 he was accepted into to the national leadership of the party's recently established Revolutionary Trades Union Opposition ("Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition"), intended as the basis for an alternative communist sponsored trades union movement. In April 1932, Pietzuch returned to Baden where he resumed his activities as party organiser ("Orgleiter"). Later that year and during much of 1933 he was back in Moscow, this time as an "aspirant student" at the secretive "M-School" ('military training establishment) surrounded by a large partially wooded area fenced about with barbed wire at Bakovka (Kuntsevo), some 20 miles to the west of central Moscow.

Swales in 1920 Alonso Beaumont Swales (1870 - 27 September 1952) was a British trade unionist. Born in Middlesbrough, EnglandThe Labour Who's Who: 1927, p.212 Swales began work in an engineering office before training as a blacksmith.Report of proceedings at the 85th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.289 He joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1890, and became an organiser for the union in 1912. He progressed to serve on the union's Executive Committee from 1917, and on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1919.Hugh Armstrong Clegg, A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889: 1911-1933, p.579 He was President of the TUC in 1925, and, during his term of office, he chaired the first meeting of a national organisation of trades councils.

The Sign and Display Trades Union (SDTU) was a British trade union that existed between 1917 and 1972. Formed in 1917 as the National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers and Kindred Trades it represented workers engaged as a sign, glass, poster or ticket writer, or in any branch of subsidiary and allied trades. University of Warwick Archive: SDT Retrieved December 2010 The union remained active during World War II. Between 1939-44, correspondence covered general union matters such as wage claims and holiday allowances and a Cinema Poster Trade Joint Agreement was negotiated. In 1944, the Sign and Display Trades Union signed an agreement of mutual recognition with the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees (NATKE), acknowledging the demarcation between the two unions in the cinema industry.

He also concurrently served as the executive secretary of the Union of Security Employees and the Singapore Shell Employees Union. After a stint in 2013 in the private sector with Kestrel Capital Pte Ltd, an investment firm, Desmond returned to the public sector to rejoin NTUC in April 2014 and is now the assistant secretary-general of National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).

He married Beatrice Anne Shore Smith (b. 3 June 1865), daughter of barrister Samuel Smith. With his brother Vernon, he advocated positivist philosophy, motivated by the ideas of Auguste Comte. A supporter of labour movements, he, and fellow positivist intellectuals A.J. Mundella, Edward Spencer Beesly, Henry Crompton, and Frederic Harrison, played a leading role in the acceptance of trades’ union legitimacy.

Len Murray, the then General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), led a 'back-to-work' march but it drew only 200 people. The march was flanked by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and British Army but a crowd of loyalists still managed to attack some of the marchers. A simultaneous march in Cregagh attracted only seventeen people.McDonald & Cusack, UDA, p.

He remained a prominent figure in Labour, however, and edited The Voice of Labour and The Watchword from 1930-32. In 1941 he became Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress, and afterwards of the Congress of Irish Unions. He served for twenty-three years, until his death, as one of the workers' representatives when the Labour Court was established in 1946.

Found guilty in June 1926, he was sentenced to a thirty-month jail term. After a conditional early release in the middle part of 1927 Pitzuch made his way to Mannheim where he became a party organiser ("Orgleiter") for the Baden region. He returned to Berlin in 1928. He now worked with the Trades Union department of the Party Central Committee.

Dagmar Enkelmann joined the Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands"/ SED) in 1977. The SED was the ruling party in what many people thought of as a one-party dictatorship. She engaged in trades union and women work. After reunification the party rebranded itself as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and scrambled to reinvent itself for a democratic future.

He became a director of the Involvement and Participation Association. Nichols was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 2000, and became President of the TUC for 2019/20. Also in 2019, he was appointed to the board of the Health and Safety Executive. Nichols' daughter, Charlotte, is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Warrington North.

Matthew Taylor, Web of hate, The Guardian, 4 October 2006. Retrieved 22 October 2009. The website has been heavily criticised by the Trades Union Congress and many affiliated unions. Following the TUC's annual Congress in September 2004, where an anti- Redwatch resolution was passed, the TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber wrote to Home Secretary David Blunkett, requesting a meeting to discuss the issue.

In their report on working time, the Trades Union Congress has also argued that flexible working should be extended to all workers through stronger regulations (Fagen et al. for TUC, 2006). As authors Gerson and Jacobs agree, "flexibility and autonomy are only useful if workers feel able to use them" (Gerson & Jacobs, 2004, pg. 238).Gerson, K., & Jacobs, J. (2004).

In 2012, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) published a report called A Just Scotland, which laid out "challenges for both sides of the debate", in particular calling on Better Together to "outline a practical vision of how social and economic justice can be achieved within the union". The STUC had previously refused an offer to join the Better Together campaign.

"Britain's firefighters end strike", St. Joseph Gazette, 13 January 1978, p.10 Parry was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1968, serving until his retirement in 1981. In 1980, he was President of the TUC. He also served on the Health and Safety Commission, and joined the Broadcasting Complaints Commission on retirement from his union duties.

In 1955 she even joined a trades union, a source of continuing pride ("worauf ich doch recht stolz bin"), as she later told an interviewer. 1956 was the year in which she defied her father's world view further by becoming a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Around this time she also started working for the party on a voluntary (unpaid) basis.

George Odger would be named to the governing General Council of this organisation, remaining in that position until his resignation in 1872.Hinton, English Radical Leaders, pg. 337. During this interval Odger also remained active in the Trades Union Congress (TUC), he was the Secretary of its Parliamentary Committee, the post later to become the General Secretary, from 1872 to 1873.

Edith Jemima Simcox (21 August 1844 - 15 September 1901) was a British writer, trade union activist, and early feminist. She began her writing career as a reviewer, publishing criticism under the pseudonym "H. Lawrenny," including an important review of the Memoir of Jane Austen (1870). In 1875 she and Emma Paterson became the first women to attend the Trades Union Congress as delegates.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (often abbreviated to just Congress or ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.

Chris Coates, "Union History Online: Digitization Projects in the Trades Union Congress Library Collections." International Labor and Working- Class History 76.01 (2009): 54–59. The TUC archives are held at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick Library. The archive contains files from c1920 – 2000 consisting of correspondence, internal and external documents, minutes, reports, printed material and press statements.

61 The union also affiliated to the Labour Representation Committee, and its member Arthur Henderson became one of the first Labour Members of Parliament.Friendly Society Of Iron Founders, Centenary Souvenir: 1809 - 1909, p.66 However, in 1901 it was expelled from the Trades Union Congress following a dispute with the Brass Moulders.Friendly Society Of Iron Founders, Centenary Souvenir: 1809 - 1909, p.

An investigation into Coyne's actions during the election, led by Andrew Murray, the union's chief of staff, resulted in Coyne being fired for the misuse of data in June 2017. Coyne's subsequent complaint to the Trades Union Certification Officer was dismissed on all ten counts, and the officer found that Coyne had included misleading information in some of his election literature.

Wolodymyr Maksymiw et al, The British trade union directory, p.357 He also serve as the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1972, and on the council of Acas from 1974. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969 and knighted in the 1978 New Year Honours. He died in Sutton, London, in 1978.

The money raised helped pay for warm clothing and medical supplies. The Joint War Organisation worked with the Trades Union Congress, the National Council of Labour and the Mineworkers Federation to supply these items. In addition to portable X-ray units, motor X-ray units and ambulances, the following items were sent: blankets, clothes, medicines, medical equipment, and first aid kits etc.

He became involved with the Typographical Association, and in 1894 became its full-time National Organiser. From this post, he was promoted to Assistant General Secretary, then in 1900 was elected as its General Secretary.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1934 Trades Union Congress, p.213 During his time as General Secretary, Skinner devoted much effort to building links with other unions.

"The New Chairman", Labour, vol.12, p.450 His union merged into the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW), and in 1926, he began working for it full-time. In 1935, he was appointed as the NUGMW's National Industrial Officer, and this led, two years later, to a seat on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

"Beachfront" will have a water show, fairgrounds and other attractions to rejuvenate Sentosa's beaches. Transportation will be enhanced too. In addition, a future "Downtown South" resort, similar to the current NTUC Downtown East in Pasir Ris, will be located on Pulau Brani once the port moves out in 2027. A suitable location is still being worked out with the National Trades Union Congress.

In Saxony Motteler increasingly focused on trades union and political activities. In 1860 he joined the politically liberal German National Association, itself a precursor to a political party. This was where he first met August Bebel. In 1863 he was one of the founders of the Arbeiterbildungsverein (Workers' Educational Association) in Crimmitschau, which quickly became part of a nationwide movement.

John Rivo Gandini (28 March 1929 - 27 July 2016) was an Australian trade unionist. Gandini was a member of the Electrical Trades Union from 1983 to 1993, and was President of the Trades and Labor Council of Western Australia from 1988 to 1994. In the 1950s and 1960s he was a prominent communist and ran several times for office, unsuccessfully.

499-500 and was again defeated in December 1910. In 1897, the annual Trades Union Congress was held in Birmingham, and Stevens served as its President. He also held various prominent roles on the Birmingham Trades Council, was the first President of the National Committee of Organised Labour for Old Age Pensions, and was prominent in the Ancient Order of Foresters.

He was the Trades Union Congress's representative to the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada in 1948. The following year, he was elected to the executive of the National Union of Mineworkers, but resigned due to poor health. This poor health dogged him for the remainder of his life, although he held his trade union posts until his death in 1956.

However, the labor movement was split into nationalist lines. Southern unions formed the Irish Trades Union Congress whereas those in Ulster affiliated themselves to British unions. Mainstream Irish nationalists were deeply opposed to social radicalism but socialist and labor activists found some sympathy among more extreme Irish Republicans. James Connolly founded the Irish Citizen Army to defend strikers from the police in 1913.

The laboratory was about 9.5 metres wide. An official government inquiry into Parker's death was conducted by a panel led by microbiologist R.A. Shooter, and comprising Dr Christopher Booth, Prof. Sir David Evans, J.R. McDonald, Dr David Tyrrell and Prof. Sir Robert Williams, with observers from the World Health Organization (WHO), The Health and Safety Executive and the Trades Union Congress.

Who Was Who 1971-1980, p.885 In this post, he was known for his anti- communism,Victor Silverman, Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939-49, p.112 Yates was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951, and was then knighted in 1959. In 1957/8, he served as President of the Trades Union Congress.

Pang Chun-hoi, MBE (; 26 June 1921 – 28 February 2003) was a trade unionist and a member of the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1985–95) for the Labour constituency. He was also vice-president of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council, a pro-Kuomintang union, and chairman of the Cotton Industry Workers' General Union.

One authoritative source defined his role more succinctly as being "Head of Social Insurance" ("Chef der DDR-Sozialversicherung"). He also held senior positions in the Trades Union Federation. At a regional level he sat as a member of the Landtag of Thuringia between 1946 and 1949. At the national level, during 1949/50 he was a member of the provisional national parliament ("Volkskammer").

Callaghan's early career was in the Trades Union Congress (TUC). He joined the Economic Department as a junior researcher in 1971, eventually becoming the Chief Economist and Head of the Economic and Social Affairs Department in 1979. He worked on a wide range of topics, from incomes policies in the 1970s to developing the TUC's policy on partnership at work in the 1990s.

Back in Berlin she resumed her focus on women's issues. In August 1945 she became a member of the main Women's Committee with the Berlin city administration ("Berliner Magistrat"). Between 1945 and 1948 she headed up the Social Policy department of the Trades Union Federation (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund / FDGB). Around 1950 she resigned from her municipal responsibilities on health grounds.

Prior to entering politics, Batchelor was a union official at Furnishing Trades Union, 1972-1982. From 1983 to 1990, he was ALP Victorian branch state secretary. In February, 2012, Batchelor was appointed President of the Community Broadcasting Foundation. The Foundation, based in Melbourne, is the independent funding body annually distributing over $15m of federal grants to 220 Australian community based media organisations.

There were supporters in common of the First International (IWMA) and the LTRA, such as Joseph Lane the socialist and William Randal Cremer, as well as Lucraft and Odger. Mill's advocacy of taxing the "unearned increment" won the support of Robert Applegarth, an IWMA delegate. George Howell of the Trades Union Congress worked for the LTRA as a financial agent.

He chaired the committee in 1887, and was re-elected most years until 1896.Annual Report of the 1913 Trades Union Congress, p.164 Jack was also interested in the political representation of workers, and was appointed as a vice-president of the Labour Electoral Association. In 1890, he was elected to Glasgow Town Council, with the backing of the Glasgow Trades Council.

Fred Garfield Hague (29 September 19111939 England and Wales RegisterEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 - 12 November 1984) was a British trade unionist. Hague was born in Bolton, Lancashire.1911 England Census He worked as a cotton weaver and joined the Ashton-under-Lyne and District Weavers' Association in 1940.Report of the 117th Trades Union Congress, p.

Scottish Workers' Representation Committee was the parliamentary outfit of the Scottish Trades Union Congress from 1899 until 1909. It was known as the Scottish Workers Parliamentary Elections Committee until 1903. In contrast to the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) in England, SWRC was able to maintain organisational unity between different strands of ideological tendencies in Scotland, ranging from Marxist, Catholic and Fabian socialists.

George De Peana at Sports Reference Sports Reference In 1957, he jointly won the Guyanese Sportsman of the Year award. After his sporting career, De Peana moved into trade unionism, becoming secretary of the Clerical and Commercial Workers' Union, then secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, and from 1998 until 2007 was secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour.

She has also been honorary treasurer for the National Union of Journalists and member of the Trades Union Congress General Council. In 1978 she stood in the Tower Hamlets London Borough Council Election in the Limehouse ward but was not successful, receiving 93 votes. In 2000 she stood for the London Assembly but also failed to be elected.London and Local Elections 2000.

Reason in Revolt, p183 For this service, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours. Shortly afterwards, he was received into the Roman Catholic church. He remained active in politics, though over the years he mellowed. He became a "popular Trades Union organiser" and a Labour Party councillor on Lewisham Borough Council.

In the 1969 May Day message, Mr. Peter Vincent, President of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) stated that "May Day celebrations have undergone a change of character… less of an aggressive spirit, little or no slogan shouting and few or none of the grandiloquent resolutions. In its place there is harmony of outlook oriented towards the advancement of our developing economy".

Leonard Forden (1910 - 5 March 1977) was a British trade unionist. He served on both the General Council of the Trades Union Congress and the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. Forden worked for many years as a bus driver in Manchester. He joined the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) in 1924, and became secretary of his union branch in 1943.

The Confederation of Trade Unions of Burundi (, COSYBU) is the larger of the two national trades union federations active in Burundi. It is distinct from the Trade Union Confederation of Burundi (Confédération syndicale du Burundi, CSB). Both the COSYBU and CSB are affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). COSYBU was formed in 1995 when it split from the recently-established CSB.

"Nevertheless the military government depended directly upon the civil service, and the regime relied directly for its day to day operation on the advice and co-operation of senior civil servants. The immediate vacuum that resulted from the post-coup dissolution of Parliament, the banning of the CPP, and the arrest of government ministers, regional and district commissioners and local councillors was filled largely by the civil service; politically, the civil service replaced the CPP." B. A. Bentum (verily a CPP minister himself) was appointed Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress and authorized to cull its old CPP leadership. Bentum dissociated the Trades Union Congress from the All-African Trade Union Federation, began a "Productivity Drive" to raise output, helped the government with public relations abroad, and created a mechanism for supplying civilian workers to assist the armed forces.

This stance was exemplified by one of the white miners' slogans, "Workers of the World, Unite and Fight for a White South Africa". The IWW in the United States resoundingly condemned the SAIF's efforts at "white" unionism and compared it to the American Federation of Labor's efforts to maintain a white "labor aristocracy" in the United States. In any case, the SAIF's situation would prove untenable, as it would collapse under the weight of its failed strikes and be replaced by the South African Trades Union Council, which was run under Communist Party control and emphasized white skilled crafts over black and white "unskilled" labourers, following the Trades Union Council (TUC) model common in the British Empire at the time, thus fully reconstituting the white South African labour movement on a non-syndicalist, non-revolutionary basis.

It was boosted by affiliations from new unions of unskilled workers during the 1890s. However, their representatives were more radical, and William Walker and John Murphy became prominent, persuading the council to affiliate to the British Labour Representation Committee and run a joint newspaper, the Belfast Labour Chronicle, with their Belfast Labour Representation Committee. The council was involved in the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) from its foundation, in 1894, although initially it favoured also retaining links with the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). These ended the following year, when the TUC voted to exclude trades councils from direct members, and the council thereafter devoted significant time to the ITUC. By 1897, it was the largest trades council in Ireland, representing 17,500 members in 56 affiliates, and that year, it sponsored six successful candidates for the Belfast Corporation.

In 1928, he was elected as the union's general secretary, and from 1931 to 1941, he additionally served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Spence was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1937. During World War II, he was a member of the Advisory Council to the Ministry of Shipping. He retired in 1942, settling in Shoreham-by-Sea.

The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) was a British and Irish trade union, operating in the construction industry. It was founded in 1971, and merged into Unite on 1 January 2017. It was affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party, as well as to the Building and Wood Workers' International and the EFBWW, European Federation of Building and Wood Workers.

As a young man, hungry for education, he attended the Trades Union Academy in Berlin as well as the Party and Commercial Academy in Frankfurt am Main. Sources mention but do not identify other colleges where he attended courses. Rink also became a noted autodidact, informing himself in particular depth about Politics and Economics. On 26 June 1905 Aloys Rink married Regina Groh at Urberach.

3, p.407 Initially, the union focused on welfare payments for members, and set a high entrance fee - 20 shillings by the 1880s. Perhaps as a result of this, membership in the 19th-century never reached 2,000. In about 1900, it was renamed as the National Society of Brushmakers, and was recognised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) as the oldest union in the country.

Lance Richard McCallum is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2020, when he was elected to represent Bundamba in a by-election following the resignation of Jo-Ann Miller. He worked as an official for the Electrical Trades Union, and in 2019 was appointed by the Queensland Government as director of the Just Transition Group.

Tolpuddle Martyrs' Rally in 2005 The case triggered a swell of protest. 800,000 signatures were collected for the Tolpuddle labourers, soon to be known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs to be released. The Home Secretary in 1837 eventually did release them. A Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally is held annually in Tolpuddle, usually in the third week of July, organised by the Trades Union Congress.

He paid back £15,000 of the redundancy payment. Allegations of impropriety were examined by the Trades Union Certification Officer, who in 2017 found that there were no documents detailing the process or decision about Lavery's redundancy, so no investigation followed. Lavery was appointed as Labour's elections co- ordinator in February 2017. In May, he was appointed as national campaign co- ordinator, serving jointly with Andrew Gwynne.

Labour Party Conference 2009 Frederick Frank Jarvis CBE (8 September 1924 – 15 June 2020) was a British trade union leader. He was President of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 1952 to 1954 and General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) from 1975 to 1989. Jarvis served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1987, the first Oxford graduate to hold that position.

Socialist Asia, Vol. II, 1 June 1953, No. 2. p. 6 The Selangor Labour Party cooperated with the Malayan Trades Union Council, and the party helped the MTUC to build the Mill Workers Union of Selangor and the Shop Workers Union of Selangor. Two party members sat in the Central Committee of MTUC, Wong Pak Choy and Lee Moke Sang (a member of the party Executive).

He took part as a delegate in the 1929 Communist Party Conference. As the economic and political situation in Germany deteriorated, in 1930 he gave up his regional job in charge of party organisation. Instead, in 1931, he became the Policy Head of the Unity Association of Building Workers in the Revolutionary Trades Union Opposition movement. January 1933 saw the beginning of Germany's twelve Nazi years.

James Campbell (17 April 18951939 England and Wales Register - 6 November 1957) was a Scottish trade union leader. Born in Glasgow, Campbell worked as a ticket collector for the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and joined the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) in 1911."Obituary", Report of the 1958 Trades Union Congress, p.311 During World War I, he served with the Royal Engineers.

Thomas Scollan (1884 – 28 October 1974) was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Scollan was an engineer, and an organiser for the National Union of Distributive Workers. He was President of the Scottish Trades Union Congress in 1934. He was elected at the 1945 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Western Renfrewshire, defeating the sitting Unionist MP Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn.

He represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), but was unsuccessful in securing a powerful position in the wider trade union movement.Alice Prochaska, History of the General Federation of Trade Unions 1899-1980, pp.49-51 In 1898, Appleton was elected to Nottingham City Council, serving until 1907. He founded the International Lacemakers' Federation in 1900, with corresponding unions in Scotland and France.

In 1902, the year of his eighteenth birthday, Otto Körting joined both the Social Democratic Party (SPD / Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands ) and the German Metal Workers' Union. Starting in 1908 he began to undertake political and trades union work. Between 1909 and 1926 he was a local councillor, representing the SPD in Bobbau, after which he became an official and community leader in the village.

Tom Eccles (5 October 1893 - 3 February 1962) was a British trade unionist. Eccles was born in Blackburn in 1893. In 1912, he joined the National Union of General Workers in 1912, a union in which his father, Fleming Eccles, was prominent."Obituary: Tom Eccles", Annual Report of the 1962 Trades Union CongressJanice Mitchell, "Jack Eccles obituary", The Guardian, 7 March 2010Social Democrat, March 1925, p.

"National Flint Glass Makers' Friendly Society of Great Britain and Ireland", Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick The new union did not affiliate to the Trades Union Congress or any other trade union organisations. Although it had members across the UK, its small membership was concentrated in Stourbridge, where it had its headquarters.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.1, p.

16-20, pp.80-81 He later stood unsuccessfully for the party in South Down at the 1950 general election,South Down 1950-1970 and Belfast Falls at the 1953 Northern Ireland general election. He lost his council seat in 1958. That year, he served as President of the Irish Trades Union Congress while, in 1965, he was President of the Irish Congress of Trades Unions.

Lewis participated in anti-war political activity starting in 1916. On one occasion, he had to be rescued from an angry crowd. He also became involved in work to support the unemployed, and served on the local Trades Union Council. On one occasion, at Christmas, he led a group of unemployed men who marched to the Town Hall, where the Mayor was holding his formal Christmas dinner.

The following year, he resigned his trade union post to become secretary of the Democratic Club, in succession to Shaw Maxwell. However, Shaw Maxwell soon returned to the post, and Johnson became treasurer of the Shop Assistants' Union, later serving a term as president. He also represented the union at the Trades Union Congress, the first shop assistant to attend one of its meetings.

In 1934 she was appointed policy-leader and trades union instructor for the underground party operation in the "Lower Rhine Region" ("Bezirk Niederrhein"). In 1935, according to one source, she even took on the leadership of the underground Communist Party for Berlin. During July/August 1935 she took part in the 7th (and final) World Congress of the Comintern (which was held in Moscow).

In 1998, he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and served as President of the TUC in 2010/11. Rooney was also active in the Labour Party, chairing the Scottish Labour Party's Standing Orders Committee until 2008."Labour climbdown on Iraq debate", BBC News, 21 March 2003 He retired from his union posts in 2011, becoming an energy consultant.

Lyons organised the first South African Scholarship at a British university (UCL). Lyons was an observer for the European Union in the first ever free elections in South Africa. Lyons was President of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from September 2003 to September 2004, after which he retired. During this time he visited Israel and Palestine in November 2003 on behalf of the TUC.

Felix M. Anthony is a Fiji Indian trade unionist and politician. During the 2000 coup, he was illegally detained by members of the Taukei Movement, an ethnic Fijian extremist organisation.Fiji's Top Union Leader Held by Rebels He was appointed to the Senate in 2002 as one of eight nominees of the Leader of the Opposition. Anthony is National Secretary of the Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC).

156 Mosses was also active in the Trades Union Congress (TUC); he served on its Parliamentary Committee from 1907 to 1911, and again from 1913 until 1917. In 1905, he was the TUC delegate to the American Federation of Labour. Mosses resigned all his trade union positions in 1917 to take up a government post.Pattern Makers' League of North America, Pattern Makers' Journal, Vols.

The People's Democratic Party is a political party in Fiji. The party was proposed in January 2013 by the Fiji Trades Union Congress as a vehicle to promote the interests of workers and unions. Shortly afterwards, the Fijian regime promulgated new regulations governing the registration of political parties, which included a ban on participation by union officials. The party applied for registration in April 2013.

Seán Patrick Campbell (1889 – 27 February 1950) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. He was a member of the Dublin Typographical Provident Society and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1933. He was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1938 on the Labour Panel. In 1943 and 1944, he was nominated by the Taoiseach to the Seanad.

Aberdeen Trades Union Council (ATUC) is the body made up of affiliated trade union branches and organisations working in the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire area to promote the interests of workers in the region. The ATUC provides services to affiliated branches on a wide range of industrial, social and community issues and is affiliated to the STUC. It has an office based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

32, 41 As leader of the union, Sedgwick focused on its role in arbitration, describing its purpose as being a "mediator between employers and workmen in trade disputes".William Lancaster, Radicalism to Liberalism: the Leicester working class 1860-1906, p.104 He also served on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1884 and 1885.James R. Moore, The Transformation of Urban Liberalism, p.

1910 saw the death of Pete Curran, president of the Gasworkers' Union, and Smith was elected as his replacement. He also replaced Curran on the Management Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions. In addition, he represented the union at the Trades Union Congress, and was elected for several years in a row to its standing orders committee. Smith became seriously ill early in 1912.

He was able to escape because a policeman mistook him for an ordinary member of the public. He started his exile in Lesotho with Moses Mabhida, Ambrose Makiwane and Joe Matthews. From Lesotho he journeyed to Swaziland, Congo, Ghana and the UK to meet the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). The TUC funded his travels to Prague, Romania and Czechoslovakia to establish contacts for the SACTU.

Originally called the National League of the Blind, the NLB was founded in 1893, and registered as a trade union in 1899.Arthur Ivor Marsh, Trade Union Handbook, p.132 It affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1902. It was initially led by Ben Purse, a piano tuner,"The National League of the Blind", Public and Commercial Services Union born in Salford in 1874.

The Technical and Special Trades Union (, Tekeri) was a trade union representing private sector workers in Finland. The union was founded in 1970 from a merger of smaller unions. It affiliated to the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), and was given jurisdiction over all private sector workers not included in another union. This included broadcasting staff, consultants, graphic designers, and pop musicians.

Shackleton became chairman of the Trades Union Congress in 1906, maintaining his powerful position in the trade union movement. In 1910, Winston Churchill invited him to join the civil service and Shackleton left Parliament. He quickly rose to the rank of permanent secretary in the new Ministry of Labour and is considered the first man from a working-class background to rise to such a senior position.

It pushed for registered nurses to be given precedence, and to be in charge. In 1935 the Trades Union Congress promoted a Bill to secure a 48-hour working week for all hospital employees. The college opposed this and was accused by the TUC of being "an organisation of v oluntary snobs". In 1939 the college's name was changed to the Royal College of Nursing.

It was with the paper that she established links with the community and developed the publication's feature department. The changes helped garner an increase in Curtis's popularity. She was employed by the Camden Task Force as a community development worker in 1982 and provided information to the Camden Pensioners and Trades Union Association. Gerry died when she was 60 and Curtis was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

The British Worker was a newspaper produced by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress for the duration of the 1926 United Kingdom General Strike. The first of eleven issues was printed on 5 May and publication stopped on 17 May after the official cessation of the strike. The principal objective of the newspaper was to circulate information and maintain the strikers' morale throughout the stoppage.

He claimed to have walked to Constantinople in 1880, where he became a journalist. Norton emigrated to Australia in 1884 and soon became chief reporter on the Evening News, which supported free trade. In 1885 he edited the official report of the Third Intercolonial Trades Union Congress. One of its resolutions condemned the New South Wales Governments contribution of ₤250,000 to assist migration from Europe.

If possible their dependents were also brought over to the United Kingdom. Due to the high number of Poles in the PRC, they were seen as significant competition by some British labour leaders. A campaign by the Trades Union Congress and leading trade unions attempted at first to turn public opinion against the Poles, but was eventually unsuccessful. By 1949 the corps had mostly ceased to function.

Charles Freak (1847 - 28 July 1910) was a British trade unionist and politician. Born in Southampton, Freak worked as a laster. He spent several years working in the United States, but returned to the United Kingdom in the early 1870s, and joined the new National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO). He soon came to prominent in the union, representing it at the Trades Union Congress.

One Marina Boulevard was designed by DP Architects, and completed in 2004. Other firms involved in the development include Singapore Labour Foundation Management Services, Samsung Corporation, Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner, Hyder Consulting, Arup Singapore, Davis Langdon & Seah Singapore, Sika Services AG, Building Systems, and National Trades Union Congress. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 28 February 2002, which formally kicked off the construction of the building.

Ernest William Bussey (9 December 1891 - 16 July 1958) was a British trade union leader. Bussey grew up in West Ham and qualified as an electrical engineer."Bussey, Ernest William", Who Was Who He worked for the West Ham Corporation, then for London County Council. He also became active in the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), and in 1931 was elected as its General President.

Beiträge zur Kommunismus-Forschung. Hamburg 1999, p. 152 She was also active in the recently created printers' trades union, IG Druck und Papier and was involved in the establishment of the German Journalists' Union which originated in 1951 as a sub-section of the printers' union. After Paul Frölich died, his widow managed his literary estate and attended to the publication of some of his writings.

Bowen is married to Rebecca Mifsud, who worked for Toll Holdings as an industrial relations executive. They met at the 2000 ALP National Conference, where Mifsud was a delegate for the Electrical Trades Union. The couple have two children together and they currently reside in Smithfield, Bowen's childhood suburb. Bowen and his older brother Paul had two siblings who died shortly after being born.

Over 1,000 protesters spent hours slowly walking over the streets of Bristol and assembled at the city's College Green at 11.00 am shouting slogans and banging portable drums. Job centres, tax offices and benefit offices were on strike in Torquay, Exeter, and Plymouth. Other small rallies and marches also occurred in these towns. Truro had about 350 people march through the town to a trades union rally.

This arrangement continued until 1889, when the United Tin Plate Workers' Association and the Gas Meter Makers' Association of Edinburgh and Leith merged into the union, which took its final name. Membership at this time was still only 1,400, but the growth led to increased confidence, and the union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, pp.

Roberta Gropper was born in Memmingen, a mid-sized town in the hills to the south of Ulm. Her father was a weaver. In 1905 the family moved to Ulm, and it was here than between 1911 and 1924 Roberta Gropper was employed in a cigarette factory. In 1915 she joined a worker's youth (Arbeiterjugend) organisation, and became a member of a trades union in 1918.

Alec Spoor, White-collar union, pp.354-361 In 1965, Anderson convinced NALGO to affiliate to the Trades Union Congress (TUC). He was immediately elected to the General Council of the TUC, and focused much time on raising the union's profile; it became the largest white-collar union in the world. In 1968, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

He also organized and was the head of The Trades Union of Theatre's Workers in the Mazovia Region. He took part in preparations for the Solidarity Mazovia Region to go underground. Between 1982 and 1989 he supervised the Solidarity resistance groups. He was arrested on 8 June 1982 and sentenced to 1.5-year of imprisonment by District Court in Warsaw on 20 January 1983.

Lim has a long career with the trade union in Singapore. He spent 26 years at the National Trades Union Congress, with the last 13 as its Secretary-General. He rose from the position of Deputy Director (1981–1983) to Assistant Secretary-General (1983–1987) and Deputy Secretary-General (1987–1991). Thereafter, he had a two-year stint at the Ministry of Trade and Industry (1991–1993).

Angela Tuckett, The Scottish Trades Union Congress: the first 80 years, 1897-1977, pp.430-435 Donachy retired in 1959, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was appointed as deputy chair of the Scottish Area Board of the British Transport Commission, then in 1962 moved to sit on the British Railways Board. He died early in 1970.

The 1926 general strike was declared by the Trades Union Congress for the benefit of the coal miners, but it failed. It was a nine-day nationwide walkout of one million railwaymen, transport workers, printers, dockers, ironworkers and steelworkers supporting the 1.5 million coal miners who had been locked out. Ultimately many miners returned to work, and were forced to accept longer hours and lower pay.

The United Builders' Labourers Union was a trade union representing labourers in the construction industry in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in London in 1889, and began recruiting members nationally from 1892. As a result, it grew rapidly, to 4,650 members in 1896, and around 10,000 in 1900. It was an early member of the Labour Representation Committee, and also joined the Trades Union Congress.

The Service Union United (, PAM) is a trade union representing service sector workers in Finland. The union was founded in 2000, when the Business Union merged with the Caretakers' Union, the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union, and the Technical and Special Trades Union. Like its predecessor, the union affiliated to the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. As of 2020, the union had about 210,000 members.

In 1894, it began admitting women. In the 1910s, the Association established a branch in London, but the Trades Union Congress instituted arbitration which restricted it from a fifteen-mile radius of central London, the rival London Society of Compositors having rights to organise in the city. By 1946, membership had reached 13,958.Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.

When she was 14 Kirsch joined the Young Communists. In 1925, still aged only 19, she joined the Communist Party itself. 1925 was also the year in which she joined a trades union. She also quickly became actively engaged with "Red Aid" (Rote Hilfe), the Communist Party workers' welfare organisation which was widely seen as having close links with the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow.

As leader of the association, Battersby represented it to the Trades Union Congress (TUC). When the TUC was held in Glasgow, in 1875, he was elected as its president. In his address to the conference, he argued that the TUC should assist in obtaining a Factory Act regulating conditions of work in India. Following the conference, he served two terms on the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC.

Humphries resigned from the Communist Party in 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution. Humphries ran unsuccessfully for the position of General Secretary of the Fire Brigade's Union in 1964, losing to Terry Parry by 2,000 votes. Humphries then assumed Parry's position as President of the Fire Brigades Union, an office he held until 1977. In 1968, he served as President of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

"Contenders for USDAW job", The Guardian, 27 February 1979 In 1979, USDAW's general secretary, Alf Allen, stood down, and Whatley defeated John Dilks to succeed Allen. As general secretary, he also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and on the TUC's Economic Committee. He retired in 1985, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire the following year.

The Irish Municipal Employees' Trade Union was a trade union representing employees of Dublin City Council in Ireland. The union was founded in 1883 as the United Corporation Workmen of Dublin Trade Union. It joined the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1894, and took the name "Irish Municipal Employees' Trade Union" in 1918. In 1942, the Dublin Fire Brigade Men's Trade Union merged into it.

The miners had rejected the owners' demands for longer hours and reduced pay in the face of falling prices.Medlicott, Contemporary England, pp. 223–30 The Conservative government had provided a nine-month subsidy in 1925 but that was not enough to turn around a sick industry. To support the miners the Trades Union Congress (TUC), an umbrella organization of all trades unions, called out certain critical unions.

William McCall (born 6 July 1929) is a former British trade union leader. McCall attended Dumfries Academy before joining the UK Civil Service in 1946. After a short period studying at Ruskin College, he moved to work for the Social Insurance Department of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1954. Four years later, he joined the Institution of Professional Civil Servants (IPCS) as its Assistant Secretary.

Patrick Casey is a young sailor from a Catholic Liverpool-Irish family. His father was a famous trades union leader, who was killed during a strike. Patrick rejects his father's advice in order to live a life of exploration and adventure as an ocean going seaman. Back in Liverpool, his childhood sweetheart, Margaret Duffy, has become a popular dockland prostitute known as Maggie May.

At some point she also served as the secretary of the Irish Women's Franchise League. Also in 1917, she went to the Irish Trades Union Congress as a delegate of the IDAA. She led a strike at Arnotts while she worked there, and succeeded in winning a 30% pay increase. Cahalan served as president of the IDAA three times, being elected in 1922, 1923, and 1924.

While general secretary, he also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and chaired the TUC's Economic Committee. In his spare time, Birch sat on a large number of government committees and quangos, including the National Coal Board, Monopolies Commission, Economic Planning Board and Central Price Regulation Committee. He was given a knighthood in June 1961, but died later in the year.

He was re-elected in the 2013 general election with an increased margin. In 2013 he also won election as deputy president of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress. He was a prominent player in the 2014 Kajang Move, an internal PKR machination to oust Selangor's Chief Minister, and PKR member, Khalid Ibrahim. He is also a member of the Central Leadership Council of PKR.

While she was young the family evidently moved to Vienna, which is where Spiegel attended school. Between 1925 and 1933 she worked at a succession of mostly clerical jobs in the city. At one stage during her time in Vienna she was employed as a gymnastics teacher. Between 1927 and 1930 she also held, in parallel, functions within the Young Communists and was a trades union member.

Kerr was elected to Glasgow City Council, giving some support to the Red Clydeside movement, and served for a period as a bailie. He represented the Workers' Union on the executive of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), and was chair of the STUC in 1929. When the Workers' Union merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union, he continued working for that union, until his retirement.

John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.6, p.23 In 1918, the union became the Irish National Painters', Decorators' and Allied Trades Union, for the first time accepting members outside Dublin. It affiliated to the Building Workers' Trade Union in 1924, but left again in 1942, and shortened its name to the "Irish National Painters' and Decorators' Trade Union" in 1926.

Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) is a guideline announced by Singapore's Ministry of Manpower that requires employers to consider Singaporeans fairly for all job opportunities before hiring Employment Pass (EP) holders. The FCF was announced on 23 September 2013 and was a result from the feedback received through MOM's "Our Singapore Conversation" sessions, employer groups and key stakeholders such as the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).

From 1895, it was instead run from Manchester. In 1901, the union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. In 1906, the union's executive proposed affiliation to the Labour Party, but members heavily rejected the idea, and the union instead adopted a position of being non-political. The union discussed a potential merger with the Fawcett Society in 1907, but members were apathetic, and this did not proceed.

Hugh P. Bolton (died 1947) was a British trade union official who also served on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. Bolton was born in Birmingham, but brought up in London. While he was named "Hugh", throughout his life, his close friends called him Ben Bolton. He became a telephone engineer, and joined the London West branch of the Electrical Trades Union.

She was not quite 12 when war ended in military defeat for Germany, followed by a wave of revolutions across the country and a new political structure which was in many ways far more democratic than the previous one. In 1922 Käthe Fürst joined the Young Socialist Workers ("Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend" / SAJ) and the Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / SPD). Working at the jute mill she was influenced by Hannes Koschnick, at that time secretary of the Revolutionary trades union opposition ("Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition" / RGO) movement and editor of the "Workers' Newspaper" The RGO was for most purposes a communist trades union confederation, although it frequently found itself in vigorous disagreement with the (increasingly Moscow-influenced) Communist Party over practical matters. It was also during this period that, increasingly, she was influenced by Robert Stamm, district leader for Northwest Bremen of the Communist Party.

After the war ended Willi Bleicher rejoined the Communist Party in 1945. He believed that the communists had learned lessons from past mistakes. Also, many on the political left at this time believed that a reversal of the divisions on the left which had erupted a quarter century earlier was "only a matter of time". Nevertheless, even though he put himself forward - unsuccessfully - as a communist candidate for election to the local council, Bleicher saw the principal channel of his future activity not in party politics but in the trades union movement. Early in 1946 the union power-broker, Karl Mössner, who held considerable sway over the Stuttgart branch of what would shortly be relaunched as the IG Metall trades union, recruited Bleicher who, still aged only 38, took over the union's youth department: he applied himself to his new responsibilities with great energy.

"Obituary: W. Robert Spence", Annual Report of the 1954 Trades Union Congress, p.320 However, in 1911, he became a strong supporter of the sailors' case in the strike. He resigned his commission, and devoted all his time to trade unionism. In 1911, Spence began working full- time as an official of the NSFU, based on shore, initially in South Shields, and later in various ports in the south of England.

Later in the year, the post of general secretary of the NUB became available, and Callighan was elected. In 1945, he was additionally elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He joined the Iron and Steel Board in 1946, and retired from all his posts two years later. Callighan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1948 Birthday Honours.

It was also prominent on the Nottingham and District Trades Council. Jack Charlesworth, president of the union from 1934, left in 1942, but was overwhelmingly elected as general secretary in 1947, taking 1,007 votes to his nearest rival's 124. Under his leadership, membership grew from 1,768, to 2,708 by 1951, and 3,200 by 1969. In 1955, the union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress for the first time.

George Chester (16 January 1886 - 21 April 1949) was a British trade unionist. Born in Loddington in Northamptonshire, Chester worked making boots from the age of thirteen.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Sir George Chester", Annual Report of the 1949 Trades Union Congress, p.288"Chester, Sir George", Who Was Who He joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives the following year, and from 1915 was assistant secretary of his branch.

This gives the legal right to represent its members whether the employer or Trades Union Congress (TUC) recognizes SWU or not. In 2015 the TUC was still resisting SWU application for admission to congress membership and while most employers are not making formal statements of recognition until the TUC may change its policy, they are all legally required to permit SWU (BASW) representation at internal discipline hearings, etc.

As a trade union the CSP is an affiliated member of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Lesley Mercer, the former director of the CSP Employment Relations and Union Services (ERUS) was President of the TUC for the year from September 2012 until September 2013. The current Director of Employment Relations and Union Services, Claire Sullivan, who took up her post in October 2014, is a member of the TUC General Council.

Lutz Raphael was born in Essen. He studied History, Romance studies, Philosophy and Sociology at Münster and Paris between 1974 and 1984. It was at Münster that he received his doctorate with a doctorate entitled "Partei und Gewerkschaft" on the trades union strategies of the Communist Parties in Italy and France since 1970. Between 1987 and 1996 he was employed as an academic research assistant at TU Darmstadt.

Erich Raddatz was born into a Protestant family in Konikow (as the village of Konikowo was known at that time) in the coastal county of Köslin, roughly halfway between Stettin and Danzig. He completed an apprenticeship as a skilled metal worker and, while still relatively young, came to Berlin. He joined the trades union in 1907 and in 1910 became a member of the Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / SPD).

Rudolf Lindau was born in Riddagshausen, a small village which was at that time a short distance outside and to the east of Braunschweig in northern Germany. His father was a saddler. Rudolf Lindau's first job was in a bakery after which he took work in a foundry, before he moved into the transport sector, first joining a trades union in 1904. At around this time he relocated to Hamburg.

The call for a £10 an hour minimum wage, the front page explains through a second quote, was inspired by the "historic victory of the $15 minimum wage in Seattle". On 24 September 2014, the front page, carrying the slogan "We need £10 an hour now!", states: "As a result of a Bakers' Union motion, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) adopted the £10 demand at its recent conference".

National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Co-operative Commonwealth for Transport (Comfort), was formed in 1970 as a social enterprise together with NTUC Income and NTUC Welcome. It targeted the problem of pirate or "ali baba" taxis which were rampant in Singapore at that time. Its business undertakings were acquired by Comfort Transportation Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comfort. Comfort was subsequently listed on 6 June 1994.

George Woodcock, (20 October 1904 - 30 October 1979) was a British trade unionist and general secretary of the Trades Union Congress from 1960 to 1969. Born and brought up in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, he started work at age 12 in the local cotton mill. He became, in 1924, an official of the Bamber Bridge and District Weavers' Union. He was also active in the Independent Labour Party and the Labour Party.

It was said that they took the TUC 'from Trafalgar Square to Whitehall'. From 1928 to 1945 he was also President of the International Federation of Trade Unions, chiefly an honorific position. He was also a Director of the Daily Herald 1929–1946, the newspaper that spoke for the trades union movement.Buchanan (2004); Citrine (1964) Citrine declined Churchill's offer to serve in his all-Party war-time coalition government.

She was also active at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and served on the General Council of the TUC from 1923 to 1926. From 1923, Quaile was secretary of the Manchester Trades Council's Women's Section, and soon was also the council's treasurer. In 1925, Quaile led a women's TUC delegation to the Soviet Union. She was also appointed to the Women's Advisory Committee of the International Federation of Trade Unions.

In 1921, he was also elected as secretary of the Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers."Obituary: Frank Dickinson", Annual Report of the 1962 Trades Union Congress, p.288 During World War II, Dickinson again served on the Wool Control Board, and from 1943 to 1946 he chaired the NAUTT. He then moved to become chair of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), serving for two years.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions. There are 48 affiliated unions, with a total of about 5.5 million members. The current General Secretary is Frances O'Grady. The TUC describes its role as to support trade unions to grow and thrive, and to stand up for everyone who works for a living.

Although now less influential in local politics, Connellan remained active. In 1904, the Trades Union Congress was held in Leeds, and Connellan served as chair of the reception committee. He resigned his council seat that year, but won in New Wortley in 1906, serving until 1912, then back in the East ward from 1914. At the 1922 UK general election, he unsuccessfully contested Buckingham for the Labour Party.

Archibald Duncan MacKellar was a Scottish trade unionist, who served as president of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). MacKellar worked as a draughtsman at John Brown's shipyard in Glasgow. In 1913, he was a founding members of the Glasgow branch of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (AESD). He rapidly became one of the union's leading figures, in 1918 chairing its committee on the Whitley Reports.

Knight was born at Shelton, Staffordshire, England, the son of James Knight, potter and printer, and his wife Louisa, née Blagg. Knight was taken to New Zealand whilst young and at 11 years of age left school to work in the mechanical department of the Bruce Herald. Six years later he returned to England and with partners started a paper with trades union sympathies. He married at an early age.

The Trades Union Congress has raised concerns about the delay – which is at least six weeks – between making a claim and receiving money. The Work and Pensions Select Committee said waiting six-weeks for the first payment caused "acute financial difficulty". Reducing the delay would make the policy more likely to succeed.Universal credit: MPs urge government to cut waiting time BBC Some claimants must wait eight months for their first payment.

As a result of this and his opposition to the UK miners' strike, he lost his NEC seat in 1984. In 1985, Evans was elected as the union's General Secretary, defeating Keith Jones. He also won election to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He opposed the privatisation of British Steel Corporation, but felt that industrial action would not prevent it, and so took no action.

Thomas MacPartlin (1879 – 20 October 1923) was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1923. A trade union official from County Sligo, he was a member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners union and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1917. He was elected to the Free State Seanad for 9 years at the 1922 election.

Thomas Farren (died 26 March 1955) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. He was a member of the Stonecutters' Union of Ireland and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1920. He stood unsuccessfully for a UK Parliament by-election for Dublin College Green in 1915. He was elected to the new Irish Free State Seanad in 1922 for 9 years.

437 then in 1943 was elected as assistant general secretary and finally, in 1949, general secretary. In 1957, he was also elected to serve on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Poole retired from his trade union posts in 1959, but took up positions on the boards of the British Overseas Airways Corporation and the Industrial Estates Management Corporation. In 1966, he received a knighthood.

The National Nurses Association was a trades union for British nurses founded by Thora Silverthorne and Nancy Zinkin in 1937. It organised a campaign to highlight the poor pay and conditions of nurses with a protest march of 1000 nurses. Silverthorne was attacked by the Royal College of Nursing for “not being a registered nurse” or “paid by Moscow”. The Association later joined the National Union of Public Employees.

Vaughan was born in Merthyr Tydfil, first studying at Afon Taf High School before working locally as an engineering apprentice and later for the Valuation Office Agency. He then went on to study Politics and History at Swansea University after which he returned to the Valuation Agency and then full-time as a trades union official for the Public and Commercial Services Union, a role he held until 2004.

In 1987 and 1988, he was director of the Birmingham Midshires Building Society. Christopher was further member of the General Medical Council (GMC) from 1989 to 1994, of the Audit Commission from 1989 to 1995 and of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission from 1989 to 1997. He was trustee of the Commonwealth Trades Union Council Charitable Trust from 1985 to 1989 and of the Save The Children Fund from 1985 to 1990.

From 1925 to 1929, he served on Durham County Council. At the 1929 United Kingdom general election, he switched to contest Barnard Castle, winning the seat, though he was defeated in 1931. Out of Parliament, Lawther returned to trade unionism. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1935, and as President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) in 1939.

The Federation of Non-European Trade Unions was a trade union federation formed in South Africa in 1928. Black workers were effectively excluded from the South African Trades Union Council, and FNETU was built with support from the South African Communist Party. In 1928 it had about 15,000 members. It concentrated on economic issues and had some success until the depression of 1930-33 affected the South African economy.

John Stephen Monks, Baron Monks (born 5 August 1945) is a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords and former trade unionist leader, who served as the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK from 1993 until 2003. He also served as the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) from 2007 until 2011, having been made a Life peer in 2010.

He was centrally involved in the creation of the Scottish Miners' Federation, serving as its first treasurer, again holding the post until his death.Ian MacDougall, Mid and East Lothian Miners' Association Minutes, p.58 He was also involved with the Trades Union Congress, and was elected as its delegate to the American Federation of Labour in 1900. Weir was a Liberal-Labour politician, and served on Dunfermline Burgh Council.

Eric Louw, the South African Minister of External Affairs, made an official complaint to the British government about Wyatt's programme.'A "Distorted" Programme', The Times (5 July 1957), p. 10. After Wyatt's programme on Communist vote-rigging in the AEU, Jock Byrne gave Wyatt documents containing evidence that since the war Communists had controlled the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) by falsifying votes.Wyatt, Confessions of an Optimist, p. 252.

The HBSSA was formed. By the end of 1978 the HBSSA was recognised by the then Halifax Building Society "as the sole bargaining agent for its members below Executive and Regional Manager level". In January 1979 the HBSSA was granted its Certificate of Independence. This meant that it was recognised by the Government as a bona fide trades union and was afforded the rights to which it was entitled.

There, he took a variety of jobs, from tram driver to oil well worker, teamster to fisherman.Trades Union Congress, "Mr Alfred Smith", Annual Report of the 1931 Trades Union Congress, p.308 After some years at sea, Smith returned to London in 1884, where he became a taxi driver. He was a founder member of the London Cab Drivers' Union, and served as its president from 1906 to 1913.

Pearson was elected as Treasurer in 1944, and from 1945 added the General Secretary role of the reformed National Union of Mineworkers (Scotland Area).Abe Moffat, My life with the miners, p.71 In 1944, Pearson also became the mineworkers' representative on the council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and he served as its chairman in 1950. Pearson was also active on the national and international stage.

However, the following year, he was elected to Hamilton Burgh Council, serving in later years for the Labour Party.John H. M. Laslett, Colliers Across the Sea, p.179 In 1912, he served on the Royal Commission on Housing."Former Miners' Leader - Late Mr David Gilmour", The Scotsman, 14 September 1926 He served on the political committee of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and was its President in 1916.

128 He attended the 1892 and 1893 Trades Union Congresses; at the first, he and Smillie jointly proposed nationalising the mines and also mineral rights. The county union appears to have dissolved around 1890, but several local miners unions were established in the county, Small leading the Blantyre Miners' Trade Union. In 1896, this became part of a new Lanarkshire Miners' County Union.Robert Thomson, The County of Lanark, p.

At Collingwood on 5 March 1921 he married Josephine Wood. Wallis supported the Premiers' Plan and contested the Senate as a Labor candidate in 1931. In 1932 he was elected President of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, and in 1933 he was appointed the workers' delegate to the International Labour Conference in Geneva. In 1934 he was general secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Clothing and Allied Trades Union, serving until 1944.

After the war, Taylor's profile as a trade unionist increased. He represented his union at the Trades Union Congress for 26 consecutive years, was elected to the Management Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and was the organisation's president for 1943 and 1944. While president, he argued that a programme of nationalisation would remove a major cause of war. He died in 1947, still in office.

She was also actively engaged, as "women's leader" ("...als Frauenleiterin"), with the "Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition" (literally "Revolutionary Trades Union Opposition" / RGO), another communist backed political movement operating to extend party support and control among German workers. In her Rhineland political base she was also involved with the German branch of the "Rote Hilfe" ("Red Aid ") organisation which operated, with party backing across the overlapping frontiers between workers' welfare and politics.

Involvement in unionism at this level propelled him, later, into two notable occupations. The first was as a Trades Union Congress delegated representative at the February 1900 inaugural meeting of the Labour Representation Committee, which made him their first chairman. The foundation of the LRC is seen as the origin of the British Labour Party. Rogers remained a member of the Committee's executive, acting as treasurer in its third year.

The union was formed when the Victorian Liquor Trades Union merged with other state-based unions representing brewery workers in 1910. The union grew rapidly, incorporating workers from kindred industries, and in 1968 merged with the Hotel Club Restaurant and Caterers' Employees' Union of New South Wales. The New South Wales branch was the largest state branch of the union (with 68 percent of the union's membership in 1976).

100–01 In 1899 Bondfield was the first woman delegate to the Trades Union Annual Congress, that year held in Plymouth,Cox and Hobley, p. 102 where she participated in the vote that led to the formation in 1900 of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), forerunner of the Labour Party.Pelling, pp. 204–06 NAUSAWC, its membership by then around 7,000, was one of the first unions to affiliate to the committee.

He became involved in the National Union of Seamen (NUS), becoming its national organiser, and then its district secretary, successively in the Bristol Channel, Mersey, North East Scotland and then Scottish districts. Next, he moved to New York City as the union's representative in the United States."Obituary: Mr Charles Jarman", Annual Report of the 1947 Trades Union Congress, p.308 Jarman succeeded as leader of the NUS in 1942.

He subsequently became identified with the right-wing of the trade union movement. In particular, he was vocally opposed to the UK miners' strike, and was supportive of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers split. Lyons also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1986, and retired from his trade union posts in 1991.

Between 1953-59 she worked as an editor for contemporary history and politics with the Munich publishers Olzog Verlag. She worked as an editor for the Munich-based academic journal "Politische Studien". Starting in 1958, she taught at the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing and at other educational institutions operated by the West German Trades Union Confederation and the SPD (party). She was also involved in teacher training.

In 1932/33, he was Mayor of Bolton. In 1924, Lomax was appointed as head of the finance department of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. He served twice as chair of the RCA, and was elected as an auditor of the Trades Union Congress most years from 1921 until 1925. Bolton Labour Party expelled Lomax in 1935, complaining that he had opposed its favoured candidate in an election.

John Daniel Daly (27 August 1930 - February 1999) was a British trade union leader. Born in Clerkenwell, London, Daly worked in the print industry and then studied at Ruskin College in Oxford. He joined the Workers Educational Association, and then worked for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers as a negotiator and as a journal editor. From 1965 he served as a Trades Union Congress (TUC) education officer.

He married Sylvia Florence Yeomans in 1965. They had a daughter. After they were divorced in 1990, he married his second wife Eva Leigh, a German trades union official that he had met through his association with the International Transport Workers Federation.Obituary, Herald Scotland, 14 August 2001 He supported Kilmarnock FC and Crystal Palace FC. He lived in West Wickham, and died of cancer in Bromley, Greater London, aged 60.

George Carson (1848 - 1921) was a Scottish trade unionist. Carson became prominent as a leader of the Scottish Tin Plate and Sheet Metal Workers' Society. In 1901, he was elected as secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), and in 1902 he became the leader of the associated Scottish Workers' Representation Committee. Also that year, he was elected as secretary of Glasgow Trades Council.

That year, he was a key leader of the Glasgow Hunger March.Ian MacDougall, Voices from Work and Home, p.509 Middleton served as secretary of the Glasgow Trades Council from 1942 until 1949, then in 1949 was elected as General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), serving until 1963. In retirement, he chaired the Herring Industry Board and served as vice-chair of the Economic Planning Council for Scotland.

626 Thomas Lowth was elected as Clark's replacement,"Obituary: Mr Thomas Lowth", Annual Report of the 1931 Trades Union Congress, p.307 but membership did not increase until the middle of the 1900s, bringing the union close to collapse. Finally, membership, began increasing, and reached 20,000 by 1913. That year, it merged with the ASRS and the United Pointsmen and Signalmen's Society to form the National Union of Railwaymen.

The union also recruited strongly among agricultural workers, with Sidney Box and R. O. Hornagold being the principal organisers. On formation, the union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the General Federation of Trade Unions, but it left both bodies in 1900, as a money-saving measure. It attempted to rejoin the TUC in 1913, but was blocked by other unions which claimed that it was poaching their members.

Returning to Northamptonshire, Allen resumed his previous occupation and became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives which he had joined in 1908."Parliament", The Times, 7 February 1958, p. 4. Under the sponsorship of the union he obtained a Trades Union Congress sponsorship to study at Ruskin College, Oxford, where he obtained a diploma in economics and political science."The Times House of Commons, 1950", p. 197.

Although his first speech to the Trades Union Congress was followed by BIFU's expulsion, for registering under the Industrial Relations Act, he subsequently held a number of TUC posts, including that of President in 1994/5. He also served on the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, and more recently with the Covent Garden Market Authority. In 1999, Mills published a biography of Frank Wild, while his Men of Ice appeared in 2008.

He promptly joined the new nation's ruling Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED). In 1950/51 he taught at the Trades Union Federation Academy in Beesenstedt, latterly serving as the institution's deputy head. Between 1952 and 1956 he studied at the Party Central Committee's prestigious Institute for Social Sciences ("Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften beim ZK der SED" / IfG) - as it was known at that time - emerging with a doctorate.

The union was founded in 1914 as the Screw Nut Bolt and Rivet Trade Union. It represented workers who used machinery to make screws, nuts, bolts and rivets. As the handmade section of the industry declined, it gained members from the National Amalgamated Society of Nut and Bolt Makers. Its membership remained just below 2,000 from the mid-1920s to 1956, when it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.

In 1923, as a delegate to the Eighth Party Conference, she was elected a member of the trades union commission. During this time she was seen as a member of the party's left wing. In 1924 she relocated again, this time to Berlin, where she took over the Women's Department at the Communist Party's national head office. Her promotion reflected a take-over of the party leadership by its left wing.

Carr, Socialism in One Country, vol. 3, pt. 1, pg. 570. Particular attention was placed on the unions of Great Britain, with Russian union chief Mikhail Tomsky traveling to the UK in 1924, followed by a reciprocal visit in November of that year of a high-level delegation headed by A.A. Purcell of the Trades Union Congress.Carr, Socialism in One Country, vol. 3, pt. 1, pp. 569-570.

The Queensland government de-registered the Electrical Trades Union for 6 months in the State Industrial Commission, the first deregistration of a union in 40 years. By October 1985, the government approved new measures to widen the use of "contract and casual labor". The ACTU failed in their negotiations on behalf of the ETU. The strike had lasting impacts on both the Queensland union movement as well as nationally.

He was involved in the negotiations in 1982 to merge the GMWU with the Boilermakers to form the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union. He was runner-up behind John Edmonds in the election for general secretary of the GMB in 1985. The GMB merged with APEX in 1989 for form the GMB Union, and Burlison served as deputy general secretary of the merged union from 1991 to 1996.

Alan Fisher (20 June 1922 - 20 March 1988) was a British trade unionist. Born in Birmingham, Fisher spent his entire working life at the National Union of Public Employees, serving as General Secretary from 1968 to 1982. This was a period of rapid growth for the union and included the Winter of Discontent."Alan Fisher (British labour leader)", Encyclopædia Britannica In 1981, he served as President of the Trades Union Congress.

Although this varied over the next decade, it was still around 8,000 in 1899, when Trow died, and the old regional rivalries had by then been overcome. During the 1900s, the union lost members due to a decline in employment at ironworks, and through some potential members joining the rival BSSA. Both unions were members of the Trades Union Congress and their demarcation dispute came to a head in 1909.

Horst Heintze (15 August 1927 – 14 December 1997) was a German trades union official and politician. Through the union movement he rose to become a member of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer) in the German Democratic Republic and, from 1963, a member of the powerful Party Central Committee. He was unusual in rising this far through the power structure of the country despite having been a Nazi Party member in his youth.

The constituency composed of two seats when it first created by in 1985, held by the two largest labour unions at that time, the pro-Communist Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and pro- Nationalist Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC). Since 1998, the constituency composed of three seats, two occupied by the FTU and one occupied by the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions (FLU).

She became a member of was a member of the Auckland Society of Arts and worked on commissioned fabric prints and murals. In 1944 she married Philip Hardcastle, a trades union official. In 1945, Smith became the topic of an important article in The Arts in New Zealand by R.P. Anschutz. In 1950, Smith and her husband moved to Gisborne, where they set up work as commercial fabric printers.

Harrison was educated at Dewsbury Technical College and School of Art. He was a foreman electrician and was active in the Electrical Trades Union. He served as a councillor on West Riding County Council and as an alderman of Castleford Borough Council. Elected Labour MP for Wakefield in 1964, Harrison served as a Government whip from 1966 to 1970 and as deputy Chief Whip from 1974 to 1979.

Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.1, p.149 By the end of the 1970s, 41 unions were affiliated, representing more than 1,500,000 workers, but the federation was in a very poor financial position. Its members were unwilling to increase their affiliation fees, most believing that the NFPW's services were now better provided by the Trades Union Congress, so the organisation dissolved in 1982.

"Sapper, Laurie", Compendium of Communist Biography In 1969, Sapper became General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers, a post which he held until 1983, during which time the union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. In retirement, he supported the Morning Star group against the CPGB leadership, and defected to the new Communist Party of Britain. Sapper's younger brother Alan also became the leader of a trade union.

Frank Foulkes (born 1899) was a British trade unionist. One of the most prominent communist trade union leaders in the United Kingdom, he left office after being convicted of involvement in rigging an election. Foulkes completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and joined the Electrical Trades Union. He also became active in the Labour Party, and at the 1929 UK general election was an election agent for the party.

The Union for Woolwich Staff was a trade union representing workers at the Woolwich Building Society in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1979 as the Woolwich Independent Staff Association. In 1999, it became known as the "Union of Woolwich Staff", and affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. In 2002, it merged into the UNIFI trade union, mirroring the purchase of the Woolwich by Barclays Bank.

40 Leeburn was also active in the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU), becoming its district organiser for Northern Ireland in 1936. In 1953, he was elected to the executive of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC), serving for three years.Donal Nevin, Trade Union Century, p.443 In 1956, he was chosen as the ITUC's first Northern Ireland Officer, acting as full-time secretary of its Northern Ireland Committee.

Born in Poplar, London, Steadman began work at the age of eight, and in 1866 became a barge builder. In 1873, he joined the River Thames Barge Builders Trades Union, becoming its general secretary in 1879 and holding the post until 1908. In 1890, he led a successful eighteen- week strike, raising his profile. In 1892, Steadman was elected as a Progressive Party member of London County Council, representing Stepney.

Problems of enforcement led to a major revision of South African labour law, with the introduction of the Industrial Conciliation Act 1937. The 1937 Act tried to introduce more councils, in a greater geographical spread, so that more collective engagements could be facilitated. There was a proliferation of unregistered trades union for black people, who were legislatively excluded. Specifically, pass-bearing black workers were excluded, although certain black women could unionise.

In this role, he promoted the construction of a large convalescent home for workers in Carshalton, which was completed before the end of World War I. Evans also held various posts in the broader union movement: he was a member of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress from 1911 until 1915, served on the executive of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, and also as its London District Secretary.

Having joined the Labour Party in 1976, Glasman re-engaged with Labour politics after his mother's death in 2008. Glasman coined the term Blue Labour, defined by Glasman as a "small-c" conservative form of socialism which advocates a return to what Glasman believed were the roots of the pre-1945 Labour Party by encouraging the political involvement of voluntary groups from trades union through churches to football clubs. Blue Labour has argued that Labour should embrace patriotism and a return to community values based on trades union and voluntary groups which he claims was evident in early Labour politics, but it was lost after 1945 with the rise of the welfare state. In a critical assessment of Glasman's political philosophy, Alan Finlayson asserts that Glasman emphasises ethical social institution rather than moral individualism, criticises commodification and the money economy and seeks to revive the concept of the "common good" at the forefront of British politics.

During this trip Chávez refused to meet UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who he described as a "pawn of [US] imperialism"."Hugo Chávez to Meet With London Leftists, But No Gov't Bigs", (link), FoxNews, URL accessed 27 July 2006 HOV participated in the resolutions of official support passed by the British Trades Union Congress in 2005 (Motion 79"Global Solidarity" (scroll down to motion 79), (link), TUC, accessed 16 October 2007) and 2007 (Motion 76"Global Solidarity" (scroll down to motion 76), (link), TUC, accessed 16 October 2007), the Scottish Trades Union Congress (Resolution 108"Resolution 108", (link) , HOV, URL accessed 27 July 2006) and an Early Day Motion (EDM 487"Early Day Motion 487", (link), Parliament.uk, URL accessed 27 July 2006) raised in the House of Commons by supporter John McDonnell, MP. Other supporters include Jeremy Dear, former general secretary of the British National Union of Journalists, George Galloway and the RESPECT party.

" This followed claims by Fijian union members, particularly baggage handlers, that they had been punched, kicked and "hit with rubber belts" by soldiers questioning their loyalty to the government. The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions said it shared the Australian union's concerns, and issued the following statement: "We are very concerned about the physical intimidation and beatings of union officials in Fiji and also the decrees that remove work rights"."NZ unions consider Fiji bans", ABC Radio Australia, 19 July 2011 In August, the Australian Council of Trade Unions condemned the police break-up of a meeting of the Fiji Trades Union Congress in Nadi."More trouble in paradise: harassment of Fijian trade unions by military Government worsens", ACTU media release, 13 August 2011 The same month, Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the British TUC, wrote again to the Fiji High Commissioner in London, to express :"outrage over the arrest of Mr Daniel Urai, President, Fiji Trades Union Congress, on 3 August 2011 in Suva.

In 1914, he became its assistant secretary, then its secretary in 1920."Obituary: William Wood", Annual Report of the 1956 Trades Union Congress, p.313 Wood became a magistrate in 1923, and was also involved with the Trustee Savings Bank, and sat on the executive of the United Textile Factory Workers Association. In 1926, Wood was elected as vice-chairman of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, to which the Bolton Spinners were affiliated.

The lifting of the Anti-Socialist Laws triggered a further consolidated relaunch: that of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1890. Karl Wilhelm Stolle was an activist member throughout these decades. He was a founder of the "International Trades Union Fraternity of Factory and Manual workers" ("Internationale Gewerksgenossenschaft der Manufaktur-, Fabrik- und Handarbeiter"). Between 1869 and 1916 he was a delegate at several social democratic party conferences and sat on various party committees.

The union was affiliated to the Trades Union Congress for a period in the 1960s, but withdrew and instead linked with other unions through the General Federation of Trade Unions. It is no longer a member of either organisation. It has never had a political fund, but is entirely independent of WHSmith, representing members with grievances or who are subject to disciplinary action. It employs a full-time president and other members of staff.

In 1924, county court staff officially became civil servants, and the union thereafter worked closely with other civil service unions. It joined the Civil Service Confederation, and then in 1939 became a founder member of its successor, the Civil Service Alliance. It joined the Trades Union Congress in 1966, at which time it had 5,190 members. From 1969, it was represented on the staff side of the Whitley Council for the civil service.

He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1964, and was its President in 1975. He was active in the International Labour Office, and served on its governing body from 1969–77. He served on the Community Relations Commission, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, as Treasurer of the Workers' Educational Association and Chairman of the Governors of Ruskin College, Oxford."Plant, Cyril Thomas Howe", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

John Stewart (1876 - 8 April 1957) was an Australian politician. Born in Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland to farmer John Stewart and Barbara Thomson, he arrived in Australia in 1912, taking up work as an electrician. He married Blanche Ogillvie Macfarlane, with whom he had four sons. He became an organiser with the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) in 1931 and was also a member of the Labor Party's Socialisation Committee from 1931 to 1933.

Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.120 Under the presidency of Patrick Moran,Padraig Yeates, A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924: The Irish Civil War the union gained a reputation for militancy, gaining recognition following a lock-out in 1918, and striking for ten weeks over pay in 1920. The union joined the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1919, but left again in 1923.

He held this post until 1988. He had served as a member of the council of the Trades Union Congress. After he vacated the Newcastle-under-Lyme seat, the resulting by-election was won by his wife Llin, who held the seat until 2001; her successor in the seat was Paul Farrelly. John Golding's most unusual claim to fame is that he once made a speech in committee lasting eleven hours and fifteen minutes.

His later advice to Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres included a cohesion and convergence remit for the European Investment Bank to invest in health, education, urban regeneration and new technology without this counting on national debt. In 1997 the European Council endorsed this as did employer and trades union representatives on the Economic and Social Committee of the EU in 2012. In 2010, he co-authored A Modest Proposal with the Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.

Larkin declined the offer and, annoyed by this, Harris became an opponent of Larkin. He worked with James Sexton to get Larkin removed from the Parliamentary Committee of the Irish Trades Union Congress. The union's branches across Ireland did not prove lasting, and by 1911 Harris was described as the union's organiser for the Belfast District. During the early 1910s, the Workers' Union grew substantially in Britain, but Harris struggled to match this.

Ilse Pottgießer was born in the Wedding quarter on the north side of central Berlin. She grew up in the Reinickendorf district, a little to the north-west of Wedding. Her father was a belt maker by trade, closely associated with both the Social Democratic Party and the Trades Union movement. At the start of 1933 the Nazis took power and lost little time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship.

Under this sycamore tree at Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, six agricultural labourers, known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, formed an early trades union in 1834. They were found to have breached the Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 and were transported to Australia. The subsequent public outcry led to their release and return. The tree now has a girth of 5.9 metres (19 feet, 4 inches) and a 2005 study dated the tree to 1680.

On 23 January 2015, Chan joined the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) on a part-time basis; He was appointed as NTUC's deputy secretary-general on 27 January 2015 and will join NTUC full-time from April. On 1 October 2015, following the 2015 election, Chan is appointed the Deputy Chairman of the People's Association Chan is seen as one of the frontrunners for the top position of the fourth-generation of PAP leaders.

For the 2015-2016 financial year, the top ten disclosed donors to the Greens Party were: Graeme Wood (businessman) ($600,000), Duncan Turpie ($400,000), Electrical Trades Union of Australia ($320,000), Louise Crossley ($138,000), Anna Hackett ($100,000), Pater Investments ($100,000), Ruth Greble ($35,000), Minax Uriel Ptd Ltd ($35,000) and Chilla Bulbeck ($32,000). Since 2017, the Australian Greens have implemented real-time disclosure of donations to them of over $1,000, in an effort to "clean up politics".

Bertha Quinn (1873–1951) was a British suffragette and socialist, from Leeds, who was arrested five times and once went to prison, becoming one of the first Catholic suffragette prisoners to be force-fed after going on hunger strike. Quinn became a Labour councillor from 1929–43, and was a trades union representative of the Tailors and Garment Workers from 1915–43. Quinn was awarded the Papal Bene Merenti Medal in 1946.

Poulton (third from left) as part of a Trades Union Congress delegation to Downing Street in 1925 Edward Lawrence Poulton (25 November 1865 - 19 November 1937) was a British trade unionist. Poulton was born in Northampton and worked making boots and shoes from an early age. He joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) in 1887, and was appointed secretary of its Northampton branch four years later.Industrial and Labour Information, vol.

Alan Fox, A History of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, 1874-1957, p.331 In 1908, Poulton was elected General Secretary of NUBSO, serving until 1930. He was awarded the OBE in 1917, and served on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1916, acting as its President in 1921. He was also active in the International Labour Office, serving as workers' vice-chairman from 1928 until 1931.

McLaughlin started his career as a journeyman electrician. He belonged to Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and was one of the union's business representatives. At a union meeting, he met labor leader Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., head of the CLC, who would become his mentor. Van Arsdale also came out of Local 3 of the IBEW, which was "long the most politically active building trades union in New York".

It played a part in the protests after the Tolpuddle Martyrs' case, but soon collapsed. Militants turned to Chartism, the aims of which were supported by most socialists, although none appear to have played leading roles. More permanent trade unions were established from the 1850s, better resourced but often less radical. The London Trades Council was founded in 1860, and the Sheffield Outrages spurred the establishment of the Trades Union Congress in 1868.

William MacLeod Speirs (8 March 1952 – 23 September 2009) was a Scottish trade union leader, a socialist and internationalist. He was General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Speirs was a key figure in left-wing Scottish politics, chairing the Scottish council of the Labour party at the 1987 general election, and being a prominent member of various groups of the Bennite left, e.g. the Labour Co-ordinating Committee and Scottish Labour Action.

Alfred Clarence Dann (11 March 1893 - 16 January 1953) was a British trade union leader. Dann grew up in Southwark and attended the West Square High Grade School, before becoming a lawyer's clerk."Dann, Alfred Clarence", Who Was Who He briefly served in the British Army during World War I, but was soon instead posted as an agricultural worker in East Anglia."Obituary: Alfred Dann", Annual Report of the 1953 Trades Union Congress, p.

He became the Chief Executive of the Wales Trades Union Congress sponsored Centre in Cardiff, a position he held before his election to the House of Commons. Howarth was elected as a councillor to the Huyton District Council in 1971 and served in its successor the Knowsley Borough Council until 1986, becoming its deputy leader from 1982–1983. He was the chair of the Knowsley South Constituency Labour Party for four years from 1981.

Joseph Michael Martin (3 January 1898 - 5 March 1940) was an Australian politician. Martin was born at Pyrmont in Sydney to engineer John Martin and Maria Theresa, née McArdle. He married Minnie Louise Fuller on 20 September 1919, with whom he would have two children. Long involved in the trade union movement, Martin was an organiser of the Electrical Trades Union in 1931 and a member of the Milk Board from 1931 to 1938.

William James Gibb (25 June 1882 - 8 August 1952) was an Australian politician. He was born at Redfern to tramdriver James Gibb and Julie Smith. He worked as a tailor, and was vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Allied Trades' Union from 1917, becoming federal president from 1928 to 1929. On 9 December 1922 he married Elizabeth Kelly; he would later marry again on 14 April 1949 to Charlotte Dalton McMahon.

Political Unions organized petitioning campaigns meant to sway parliament. The B.A.P.C.K. leadership thus formed the National Union of the Working Classes (N.U.W.C.) to push for a combination of Owenism and radical democratic political reform. Owen himself resisted the N.U.W.C.'s political efforts at reform, and by 1833, he was an acknowledged leader of the British trade union movement. In February 1834, he helped form Britain’s first national labour organization, the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union.

Bernard Rodrigues (15 March 1933 – 17 August 2015) was a Singaporean politician. Rodrigues represented Telok Blangah as a legislative assemblyman in the 1st Parliament of Singapore from 1965 till 1968. He was a founding member of the People's Action Party and helped establish the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). Rodrigues argued that making the NTUC effective was in the best interest of Singapore, as it would be a constructive alternative to pro-Communist movements.

Sara A. Conboy - Helped Textile Workers To Get 48-Hour Week, New York Tribune During World War I she was appointed to the Council of National Defense. In 1920 she was the first woman to serve as a United States delegate to the British Trades Union Congress. She was also the first woman to direct a bank in the state of New York, and she served on several government committees.(9 January 1928). Mrs.

Until the end of 1973 both sides agreed to hook the workers' wage to the civil servants. Chan began to be appointed by the government in various public offices. In 1980, he was appointed by Governor Murray MacLehose to the Legislative Council, to replace the vacant seat left by Leung Tat-shing of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council. Before he was appointed to the council, he was made Justice of Peace.

Each year Congress elects a President of the Trades Union Congress, who carries out the office for the remainder of the year and then presides over the following year's conference. The TUC is not affiliated to the Labour Party. At election time the TUC cannot endorse a particular party by name. However it can point to policies that it believes would be positive for workers’ rights, or to social cohesion and community welfare.

General Afrifa later commented, regarding Radio Ghana: "From early morning till late at night there poured forth a sickening stream of Stalinist adulation and abject flattery. News was so often distorted or suppressed that Ghanaians stopped believing what they heard."Last, "Ghana's Mass Media" (1980), p. 203. The Party acted as a political monolith, with functional control over powerful civil organizations such as the Ghana Trades Union Congress and Ghana Muslim Council.

In 1958, Griffiths progressed to become ASLEF's organising secretary, and then the following year was chosen as its assistant general secretary. In 1964, he was elected as the general secretary of ASLEF, and with his increased prominence was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, also serving on the National Board for Prices and Incomes. Under Griffith's leadership, the union led a go slow on the railways in 1967.

The General Secretary also has a seat on the council.Trades Union Congress, "General Council and TUC structure" Some members of the council are further elected to serve on the smaller Executive Committee of the TUC. The President of the Trades Union Congress is also chosen by the General Council. Although the TUC has long had links with the Labour Party, members of the General Council are not permitted to sit on Labour's National Executive Committee.

The Auxiliaries, it was claimed, set the fires in reprisal for the IRA attack at Dillon's Cross. The British Government refused to publish the report. The Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress published a pamphlet in January 1921 entitled Who burned Cork City? The work drew on evidence from hundreds of eyewitness which suggested that the fires had been set by British forces and that British forces had prevented firefighters from tackling the blaze.

This received much acclaim and press attention in its day. In September 1982, Chapple became President of the Trades Union Congress and was succeeded by Eric Hammond in 1984. Chapple was elevated to the House of Lords as Lord Chapple of Hoxton in 1985. In 1986 the union's members replaced print workers that had been sacked by News International, prompting the Wapping dispute that led to the irrevocable change of Fleet Street.

James Kaylor (1877 – 14 December 1961) was a British politician and trade unionist. Kaylor became prominent in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and was elected to its executive council in 1913. He sat on various government committees during World War I.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1961 Trades Union Congress, p.290 At the 1918 general election, he stood in Bristol North for the Labour Party; he took 26.5% of the vote and second place.

John Thomas O'Farrell (died 2 January 1971) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. He was a member of the Railway Clerks' Association and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1927. He was an unsuccessful Labour Party candidate for the Dublin North-West constituency at the 1922 general election. He was elected to the new Irish Free State Seanad in 1922 for 3 years.

During this interval, Burt also conducted a Labor college in cooperation with the Central Trades Union of Rock Springs and served as associate director of workers' education for the state of Wyoming under the auspices of the Wyoming State Federation of Labor. He married Ethyl E. Denton on 30 December 30, 1913. During the years of the World War I, Burt resided in Lawrence, Kansas.William E. Connelley, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.

She was involved over a long period with the problems of working-class women and the emerging trade union movement. In 1886, she became honorary secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and moved an equal-pay motion at the 1888 Trades Union Congress. In 1889, she helped to form the Women's Trade Union Association, which later became the Women's Industrial Council. Black was among the organisers of the Bryant and May strike in 1888.

In 1928 the Arbeiterverband für Südwestafrika was affiliated to IFTU (initially IFTU had demanded that the Arbeiterverband would scrap its ban on African membership, but later retracted the demand). Confederación Obrera de Argentina rejoined the IFTU, but the contacts were lost again soon afterwards. Persatoean Vabonden Pegawai Negeri from the Dutch East Indies joined IFTU. In 1934 the Argentine CGT and the National Trades Union Federation from India became a member of IFTU.

Sir Brendan Paul Barber (born 3 April 1951) is a British trade union official. He is chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Council. He is a former general secretary of the United Kingdom's Trades Union Congress (TUC); a post he held from June 2003 until his retirement at the end of 2012. He was appointed Acas Chair in 2014, replacing Ed Sweeney, who had been in the post since 2007.

Gavin Mark Marshall (born 25 March 1960), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate from July 2002 until June 2019, representing the state of Victoria. Marshall was born in Melbourne and was an electrician and official with the Electrical Trades Union before entering politics. On 7 July 2014, Marshall was elected Deputy President of the Senate. His term in both positions ended on 9 May 2016.

Käthe Odwody (born Katharina Wanek: 6 March 1901 - 23 September 1943) was an Austrian worker at a commercial bakery and trades union officer who became a communist resistance activist against the Dollfuß dictatorship and, after 1938, against the National Socialist ("Nazi") régime. Her cover name within the Siegl resistance group was "Walli". She was executed, along with two of her resistance comrades, by guillotine at the district court complex in Vienna on 23 September 1943.

This, coupled with concerns about the rights of striking members and those who were locked-out, led it to join the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades. This confederation achieved little, but the Boilermakers retained its interest in such an organisation, and so in 1870 it joined the recently-formed Trades Union Congress (TUC). Robert Knight, who became secretary of the union in 1871, soon became a leading figure in the TUC.

The Labour and Liberal parties, the Trades Union Congress,Williamson, p. 328. and the dominions of Australia and Canada, all joined the British cabinet in rejecting the King's compromise, initially supported and perhaps conceived by Churchill, for a morganatic marriage that had originally been made on 16 November. The crisis threatened the unity of the British Empire, since the King's personal relationship with the Dominions was their "only remaining constitutional link".Williamson, p.

He stood for Edinburgh Town Council's Canongate ward in 1870, as a Liberal-Labour candidate, coming only fifty votes behind his opponent. He moved to Glasgow in 1875, when the headquarters of the union were transferred there. From 1881 to 1883, he also served on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress. In 1883, Paterson stood down as leader of the union to become the first working-class factory inspector in Scotland.

On retirement from the NASUWT, de Gruchy served for a year as President of the Trades Union Congress. In 2007, he was chosen as secretary of the Orpington Labour Party. He fought Orpington as the Labour candidate in both 2015 and 2017, being defeated on both occasions by the Conservative incumbent Jo Johnson. In 2015, at 72 years 3 months, he claimed that he was the oldest first-time candidate to stand in the election.

Kelash was a member of the Senate's Agriculture and Rural Economies, Environment and Natural Resources, and Jobs and Economic Growth committees. His special legislative concerns included jobs, education, and transportation. Kelash is a retired carpenter, union officer and regional business agent. He has been a member of the Carpenter's Local Union #1644 since 1976, and has been active in the Minnesota Building Trades Union, the Minneapolis Central Labor Union Council, and the Minnesota AFL-CIO.

Report of the 1910 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.85 In 1879, he became the full-time secretary of the union's London Metropolitan branch, later moving to become the branch president. In 1892, Freak was elected as a Labour Progressive member of London County Council in Bethnal Green North East, one of the first eight Labour members of the council. He held the seat in 1895 and 1898, but lost it in 1901.

John Frederick McDermott (3 September 1906 - 14 August 1958) was an Irish trade unionist. Born in Dublin, McDermott joined the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers at the age of fourteen. He rapidly rose through the ranks, becoming branch secretary, then district secretary, a member of the general council and then of the executive council, and the Irish registration officer for the union.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1958 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.

The resulting industrial dispute was the most severe in Ireland's history. Employers in Dublin locked out their workers, and employed blackleg labour from Britain and elsewhere in Ireland. Dublin's workers, amongst the poorest in the United Kingdom of the time, applied for help and were sent £150,000 by the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) and other sources in Ireland, doled out dutifully by the ITGWU.This TUC assistance would be worth over €16m in 2014 values.

In the closing years of World War I, the colony's first trade union was formed. The British Guiana Labour Union (BGLU) was established in 1917 under the leadership of H.N. Critchlow and led by Alfred A. Thorne. Formed in the face of widespread business opposition, the BGLU at first mostly represented Afro-Guyanese dockworkers. Its membership stood around 13,000 by 1920, and it was granted legal status in 1921 under the Trades Union Ordinance.

Dewhurst represented the council at the first Trades Union Congress, but he read a paper which had not been approved by the trades council. It was also found that his union had not paid its affiliation fees, so he was replaced as secretary. He had returned to the post by 1869, but the council ceased operating soon afterwards. A new Bradford Trades Council was founded on 16 July 1872 at the Black Bull.

The same night there was a further disturbance outside the Brighton and District Labour Club on London Road, following which another five people were arrested. All 22 arrestees were imprisoned for an average of three months each. The general strike was called off the following day by the Trades Union Congress, and some transport workers who struck were not reinstated by their employers. A celebratory dinner was held for the benefit of the special constables.

Niger protesters march against constitutional change. Reuters. Sun 14 June 2009. These were followed by a threatened general strike of all seven of the main Nigerien trades union bodies, the first time these groups had announced a joint strike action. On 31 May a pro-referendum rally at the Governor's residence in the southern town of Dosso was attacked by a mob, and rioting lasted for several hours in the city center.

On a motion by Bernard Shaw this was amended to include a condemnation of the refusal of passports by the Allied governments. This resolution, as amended, passed 48–13, with the Belgian, South African and Greek delegates voting against and the British Trades Union Congress and the majority French socialists not voting.Report of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Labour Party pp.8–10 Details on the votes from Gankin and Fisher pp.602–603.

The union was founded in November 1888, as the Northwich Amalgamated Society of Salt Workers, Rock Salt Miners, Alkali Workers, Mechanics and General Labourers. Six months later, William Yarwood took over as its general secretary, resolving numerous industrial disputes. He brought the union into the Trades Union Congress, and the National Transport Workers' Federation. It was based at the Vine Tavern in Northwich, then in the 1920s moved to the George and Dragon.

It also operates as a form of trades union for journalists although it is strictly apolitical. It set up a benevolent fund for distressed journalists in 1898, and an orphans fund in 1891, and also operates a pension fund and another for convalescent members. Unemployment benefits were introduced in 1910 although such benefits, if granted, later became handled by the Benevolent Fund. These charities are all registered with the Charity Commission as number 208176.

Arthur J. Walker was a British trade unionist. Walker worked as an electrician in the 1880s and was a founder member of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) in 1889. At the first conference of the ETU, the following year, he was elected as the union's inaugural president, while Dick Steadman was appointed as the first general secretary, working on a part-time basis.John Lloyd, Light and Liberty: the history of the EETPU, p.

The National Industrial Relations Court (NIRC) was established on 1 December 1971 under Section 99 of the Industrial Relations Act 1971. The NIRC was created by the Conservative government of Ted Heath as a way to limit the power of trades union in the United Kingdom. It was empowered to grant injunctions as necessary to prevent injurious strikes and also to settle a variety of labour disputes. It also heard appeals from the Industrial tribunals.

Chipchase found work as a railway clerk, and joined the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA). She also became active in the Labour Party, standing for the party in Esher at the 1950 United Kingdom general election, taking second place with 28.6% of the vote. In 1962, Chipchase moved to work for the Trades Union Congress (TUC), initially as Woman Officer in its Organisation Department. She later became Secretary of its Women's Advisory Committee.

Artur König was born in Breslau (as Wrocław was then known) into a family registered as "non-religious" (which in Germany confers certain tax advantages). After completing his mandatory schooling he worked in machine and paper factories, later also working in domestic service and as a newspaper courier. He was a dedicated autodidact, and after he had sufficiently enhanced his learning he became a book dealer. From 1904 König engaged with the trades union movement.

She became state vice-president of the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union. She campaigned strongly against conscription in World War I. She was a friend of Norman Jeffrey and lover of Guido Baracchi, founding members of the Communist Party of Australia (but which she never joined).Biographical note to Marjorie Pizer Papers, Mitchell Library, NSW, MLMSS 7428. In Sydney Lesbia sang her poems to Guido as they crossed the harbour on the Manly ferry.

James Jack (6 December 1910 - 28 February 1987) was a Scottish trade union leader. Jack grew up in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire and attended St John's Grammar School in Hamilton. He was elected as General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) in 1963, and served until 1975. Following his retirement, he served on a large number of committees, including the Scottish Development Agency, Scottish Oil Development Council, and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

The London Trades Council was founded in 1860, and the Sheffield Outrages spurred the establishment of the Trades Union Congress in 1868. The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a Royal Commission on Trade Unions in 1867, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees. Unions were legalised in 1871 with the adoption of the Trade Union Act 1871.

Labour Anti- Bolshevism in 1919 Lee stepped down from his editorial post in 1923,Tamiment Institute, Labour History but remained on the national executive of the associated group, now again known as the "Social Democratic Federation".Nesta Helen Webster, The Socialist Network He spent his last years working at the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress. In 1935, Lee's Social-Democracy in Britain, a history of the movement to date, was published.

John W. Stephenson Sir John Walker Stephenson (1888 - 15 May 1960) was a British trade unionist. Born in Northumberland, Stephenson completed an apprenticeship as a plumber and joined the United Operative Plumbers and Domestic Engineers Association of Great Britain and Ireland. He was active in the union for many years before winning election as its general secretary in 1929."Obituary: John W. Stephenson", Annual Report of the 1960 Trades Union Congress, p.

In 1971, she was a member of the Department of Employment Women's Advisory Committee and from 1997 to 1998 of the Independent Commission on Electoral System. She held the position as Vice President Socialist International Women (1978–85), and was also a member of the Home Office Committee on Electoral Matters. She is a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) and General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMB).

From 1977, he chaired the Whitley Council for nurses and midwives. Also active in the Labour Party, he served on its National Executive Committee from 1981 until 1983, when he was instead elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1983, Williams was elected as the General Secretary of COHSE, serving until his retirement in 1987. In retirement, he served as an occasional adviser to the World Health Organization.

Beyond that, the construction of a regional trades union federation for north Africa was a priority for Hached, to embrace embryonic union movements in Algeria and Morocco, and create independent trades unions in Libya that could establish appropriate union structures there. Finally, with its social and economic programmes, along with its precepts on freedoms and liberties, the UGTT provided the nationalist movement with a coherent national agenda for the post liberation era.

Over the next few years he held a succession of trades union appointments. In July 1893 the Lathe-operators' Union was merged into the newly formed Woodworkers' Union ("Holzarbeiterverband"), which had its national head office, till 1919, in Stuttgart. In 1908 Leipart became chair of the Woodworkers' Union in succession to Carl Kloß. He retained his position at the top of what was, at the time, one of Germany's principal trades unions till 1919.

In 1965 Wetzel became a freelance journalist. He wrote for the Swedish trades union newspaper "Grafis" and othr Swedish publications a succession of articles about East Germany, and he contributed numerous articles about Sweden in the East German press. As an accredited journalist he also had opportunities to travel to the west. By 1968 - possibly earlier - he was under permanent Stasi surveillance, identified as a friend of the dissident intellectual Rudolf Bahro.

Communists secured strong representation in the popularly elected national committees, the new organs of local administration. The KSČ organised and centralised the trades union movement; of 120 representatives to the Central Council of Trades Unions, 94 were communists. The party worked to acquire a mass membership, including peasants and the petite bourgeoisie, as well as the proletariat. Between May 1945 and May 1946, KSČ membership grew from 27,000 to over 1.1 million.

Alice was also a party member. Their first child, Eberhard, was born in 1908; Irene, their daughter, was born two years later. However, because of his trades union involvement Wilhelm Wosikowski found it increasingly difficult to find work in Danzig. He received what one source identifies as "a reprimand" in 1911: later that year the little family relocated to Kiel, still on Germany's northern coast, but far to the west of Danzig.

However, it fell into financial difficulties, laying off Hawkins, and by the end of 1922, membership had fallen to only 2,500. Militant trade unionists won control of the executive. In 1923, the union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), but the Shop Assistants Union claimed it was a breakaway union and should return various "poached" members. The Chemical Workers were unwilling to do this, and so in 1924 again left the TUC.

The Northern Carpet Trades Union (NCTU) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was first formed in 1892 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, later expanding to cover all of Northern England. The NCTU was formed later than the Power Loom Carpet Weavers' and Textile Workers' Association, based in Kidderminster, and was considerably smaller. Approximately a fifth of eligible workers were members of the NCTU in 1939, compared to 50 percent for the Kidderminster union.

After the 1987 General Election, Nicholls entered the government as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment. Still not yet 40, he was given a key role in piloting the second tranche of Conservative Trades Union reforms through Standing Committee. His upward advance was checked, however, when he was arrested for drink driving in 1990, as a result of which he resigned from the government. Nicholls’ career was, however, only temporarily stalled.

The first Trades Union Congress was held in Manchester (at the Mechanics' Institute, David Street), from 2 to 6 June 1868. Manchester was the subject of Friedrich Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Engels himself spending much of his life in and around Manchester. Manchester was also an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement. Manchester's golden age was perhaps the last quarter of the 19th century.

In 1952 Baffoe returned to the Ashanti Times as a senior sub-editor. He remained in the firm until 1955 when he was appointed Editor of the India Newspaper. Baffoe served as public officer from 1958 to 1960 and became the editor of the Ghanaian Worker of the Trades Union Congress. He was appointed Editor of the Ghanaian Times in April 1960 and was dismissed in 1961 for a period of two weeks.

Bernard Dix and Stephen Williams, Serving the Public: Building the Union, pp.209-228 A supporter of workers' education, he was the first treasurer of the Central Labour College, and served on the executive of the National Council of Labour Colleges.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr J. V. Wills", Annual Report of the 1933 Trades Union Congress, p.223 During this period, Wills became interested in syndicalism, and joined the Industrial Syndicalist Education League.

She took a position as head of the Social Policy Department on the National Executive of the Trades Union Congress (FDGB). From now on her union and political career would become a national one. In 1950 her marriage ended in divorce. The FDGB was closely integrated into the country's power structure, and after the 3rd FDGB Congress, which took place in 1950, Groh-Kummerlöw became responsible for the organisation's Worker Supply Department.

There were protests and significant unrest during the decade. In May and June 1831 in Wales, coal miners and others rioted for improved working conditions in what was known as the Merthyr Rising. William Howley Archbishop of Canterbury has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury in 1832. In 1834, Robert Owen organized the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union, an early attempt to form a national union confederation.

That same year he was transferred to the Political and Social Affairs department of the Trades Union Congress. He was appointed the Administrative Secretary of the All African Peoples Conference in 1960 while he doubled as a news consultant of Radio Ghana. In November 1962 he was appointed director of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute which was then in Winneba. He remained in that post until the overthrow of the Nkrumah government.

In 1986, he was elected as general secretary, and from 1988 also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. In 1992, he stood down from his existing posts to become secretary of the Council of Civil Service Unions, also joining the Industrial Tribunal Panel. Ellis retired in 1995, thereafter devoting his time to the Civil Service Pensioners' Alliance, and the Labour Party, which he represented on Caterham Valley Parish Council.

Annual Report of the 1925 Trades Union Congress, p.350 He married the daughter of Peter Shorrocks, first General Secretary of the union.Anne J. Kershen, Uniting the Tailors In 1893, Flynn was appointed as the union's London District Secretary, succeeding James MacDonald, and also took a place on the Executive Council. George Keir, the General Secretary of the union, died later in the year, and Flynn was elected to the vacant office.

Robert Baxter Garland (21 March 1920 – 2004)England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 was a Scottish trade unionist. Born in Glasgow, Garland completed an apprenticeship as an iron moulder, and became an activist in the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers (AUFW). He took evening classes with the University of Glasgow before winning a Trades Union Congress scholarship to attend the London School of Economics."R. Garland", Foundry Trade Journal, vol.

He was briefly interned in 1941, but on release set up an organisation of German trade unionists, and broadcast on the German language programmes of the BBC. He was able to help plan the future structure of German trade unions.Review of Eiber's work (PDF) Utopie kreativ, Issue 109/110 (1999), pp. 189-191 When the war ended, Gottfurcht returned to Germany, where he acted as a liaison officer for the British Trades Union Congress.

It contains forewords by the MPs Graham Allen and Chloe Smith, as well as the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Frances O'Grady. Viral Voting was cited in a House of Commons debate on the EU Referendum Bill by Labour MP, John McDonnell. It is also cited in a Salford University research paper on trade union strike ballots. In January 2016, Secure Voting: A guide to secure #onlinevoting in elections was published.

He also became the union's delegate to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and was elected to its Parliamentary Committee. In 1873, he became the secretary of the Labour Representation League. At the 1874 general election, two candidates sponsored by the League were elected, but Broadhurst was unsuccessful at High Wycombe. In 1875, he was elected Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC, the post which was later to become the General Secretaryship.

Later in the year, he was also elected to the Ashton Board of Guardians.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Mr William Marsland, JP", Annual Report of the 1917 Trades Union Congress, p.206 In 1904, Marsland again won a general secretaryship by examination, becoming leader of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, to which the Ashton Spinners was affiliated. In 1905, he was additionally appointed as secretary of the International Federation of Textile Workers' Associations.

In 1930, she was selected as the party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Westminster Abbey, though she ultimately did not stand. The dock union became part of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and Carlin became its National Women's Officer and the secretary of its Women's Guild. She also served on the Court of Referees as a trade union representative.Trades Union Congress, "Miss Mary Carlin", Report of the 1939 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.

Brenner however, like most trades unionists, advocated a structure involving individual industry-sector based trades unions organised under the aegis of a single trades union confederation: that is the structure that was subsequently adopted and which operates to this day. The first industrial strike in postwar Germany took place in December 1946 at the Hanover plant of Bode-Panzer. It lasted 23 days.Reinhard Schwitzer: 50 Jahre Bode-Panzer-Streik Hannover 1946–1996.

3, p.129 also representing it at the Trades Union Congress (TUC). He was elected to the General Council of the TUC in 1921 but, the following year he took the UOGL into the new Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), and thereby became ineligible to defend his seat on the general council. In 1924, Davenport was re-elected to the General Council of the TUC, this time as a representative of the TGWU.

The Union of Insurance Staffs (UIS) was a trade union in the United Kingdom for workers in the insurance industry. The union was founded in 1919 as the Guild of Insurance Officials (GIO), and had 14,551 members by 1921. Membership remained at a similar level for many years, peaking at 21,000 in 1963. The union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of Insurance Trade Unions, and became the "Union of Insurance Staffs" in 1969.

In 1931, he was elected to the union's executive, and from 1938 he worked full-time for the union, as a district organiser."Figgins, James Hugh Blair", Who Was Who In 1943, Figgins became the assistant to John Benstead, the union's general secretary. When Benstead resigned, in 1948, Figgins was elected as his replacement, serving until his retirement in 1953. He was also elected to replace Benstead on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

6, pp.314-320 Membership was around 3,000 for many years, but grew rapidly under the leadership of John Thomson in the 1910s. He focused on mergers with smaller unions, bringing in the Combined Smiths of Great Britain and Ireland, the Co- operative Society of Smiths, the National United Society of Smiths and Hammermen, and the United Smiths Trade Union of Ireland."Obituary: Mr J. Thomson, OBE, JP", Annual Report of the 1919 Trades Union Congress, p.

When the radical wave subsided, the Herald found itself broke and unable to continue as an independent left daily. Lansbury handed over the paper to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party in 1922. The newspaper had begun to publish the Bobby Bear cartoon strip in 1919. In August 1920 Lev Kamenev, a Bolshevik diplomat visiting London on official business, sent a telegram addressed to Lenin in Moscow which was intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence.

Despite some later reports, he was not accredited by the National Democratic and Labour Party, but he did receive a Coalition coupon, and is therefore often counted as a Coalition Labour candidate. He took 30.9% of the votes cast and second place in the poll. In his spare time, Bell was active in the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, and he served as Grand A. Buffalo of England. Bell was a prominent figure at Trades Union Congress meetings.

In 1930, he was elected as the union's general secretary, and in 1937 he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). It was at the TUC that Chester came to greatest prominence. Acknowledged as an expert on economic and educational matters, in 1942 he presented the TUC's "Education after the War" policy document, and he chaired the TUC's economic committee for several years. In his spare time, Chester was a keen naturalist.

Heavily involved in the labour movement, Daly was elected to Parliamentary Committee of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) in 1905.Donal Nevin, Trade Union Century, p.193 Long known as a leading supporter of Jim Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), he ran the union in 1910 while Larkin was in prison. However, in 1909, he was appointed as editor of the Dublin Trades Council newspaper, a post which Connolly had hoped to win.

He devoted his efforts against private monopolies and introduced a motion in 1892 that all contracts for the County Council should be paid at trade union rates and carried out under trade union conditions. As a local politician, Burns is particularly noted for his role in the creation of Battersea's Latchmere Estate, the first municipal housing estate built using a council's own direct labour force, officially opened in 1903. He was connected with the Trades Union Congresses until 1895.

McMahon attended the co-educational, Roman Catholic Our Lady's High School, Motherwell from 1973 until 1977. After leaving school, he worked as a welder at Terex Equipment Ltd, Motherwell from 1977 until 1992. He had been a trade union activist since school, and was Chair of the Youth Committees for the GMB trade union and the Scottish Trades Union Congress. In the GMB, he was also the branch Equality Officer and a member of the Racial Advisory Committee.

He became involved in the Electrical Trades Union, serving as New South Wales secretary from 1941 to 1948 and federal secretary from 1948 to 1964; he was also an executive member (1941-1964) and president (1956-64) of the Trades and Labor Council and an executive member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (1946-1964). From 1950 to 1978 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Thom died at Newport in 1987.

40 By the mid-1970s, he was Assistant Secretary of the union, and he was elected as General Secretary of the NUTGW in 1979.Report from Affiliated Organisations: International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation World Congress (1979), p.210 In 1991, Smith led the union into a merger with the GMB Union,Anne J. Kershen, Uniting the Tailors, p.xiv He then became National Officer of the GMB, and served a term as President of the Trades Union Congress.

He worked as an electrician and became an organiser within the Australian Electrical Trades Union and a delegate to the Australian Trades and Labor Council. He subsequently established his own electrical contracting business and later worked in footwear distribution. He served as an alderman on Randwick Municipal Council from 1950 until 1956, including Mayor of Randwick from 1954. He was an alderman on Sydney City Council from 1956 until 1965, and Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1957 until 1965.

Most of the members retained their seats. The pro-Beijing leftist union Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) also supported 10 of its members who all ran as individuals and 5 of them were elected, while 5 elected candidates were with pro-Taipei background, one of whom was a member of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC). The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (PTU) also supported 30 of its members, 24 of whom were elected.

McRae moved to Western Australia from Tumut in 1980 to work as an electrician in the Pilbara iron ore industry and became active in the Electrical Trades Union of Australia. He later moved to Perth and worked as labour market policy adviser to the Western Australian Government under Peter Dowding from 1985 to 1991, a greenhouse gas reduction consultant from 1993 to 1995 and a Director at the National Native Title Tribunal from 1995 to 2000.

In 1984 he became a full-time disability rights campaigner for several national charities. Healey joined Issues Communications in 1990 as a campaign manager before becoming the head of communications at the Manufacturing, Science and Finance trade union in 1992. He was appointed as the campaign director with the Trades Union Congress in 1994 in which capacity he remained until his election to the House of Commons. He was also a tutor at the Open University Business School.

A general strike was proposed, but on 10 January a warrant for Bain's arrest was issued. Bain and fellow labour leaders barricaded themselves into their headquarters and on 13 January the Federation announced that affiliated unions had balloted in favour of the strike. However, on 15 January the Trades Union building was surrounded by police and soldiers, including artillery, and Bain and his colleagues had no option but to surrender. In February he was deported to Britain.

Through Michel Hulot he made contact with Algerian militant leaders. On 21 April 1955 he was hired by the Carrette-Duburcq company in Roubaix. He tried to put together a support committee for the MNA but in this he was not successful. He found no sign of an active trades union presence, and although most of his co-workers were Algerian, he spent much of the time assigned to small construction sites where large scale political organisation was impossible.

From Sweden they were able to provide practical support for anti-Nazi resistance groups in north Germany. Until the Moscow Show Trials of 1937 they were also active supporters for the creation of an international Popular front. She was also writing during this period for the Swedish trades union press. Around 1937/1938 Irmgard Enderle - unlike her husband - came politically close to the breakaway "Neuer Weg" ("New Path") movement centred on Peter Blachstein and Walter Fabian.

During the 2007 Guinean general strike, the opposition Trades Union leadership named Komara as one of four acceptable candidates to be appointed Prime Minister, a job later given to Lansana Kouyaté. While there is no indication he had campaigned for the post, he later published an open letter thanking the opposition. He was described at the time by the international press as an "apolitical technocrat".La Guinée va changer de Premier ministre, suspension de la grève.

He became the AEU's first assistant general secretary, then in 1933 was elected as its general secretary. Smith was also prominent in the Trades Union Congress, and served as chair of its Standing Orders Committee for many years. Smith was taken ill late in 1942 and had his leg amputated in hospital. While there, he heard that he had been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1943 New Year Honours.

George Odger (1813-1877) pioneer British trade union leader and as a longtime member of the governing General Council of the International Workingmen's Association, also known as the First International. George Odger (1813–4 March 1877) was a pioneer British trade unionist and radical politician. He is best remembered as the head of the London Trades Council during the period of formation of the Trades Union Congress and as the first President of the First International.

38 In 1891, Macpherson joined the Social Democratic Federation and was a founder of its branch in Bow. He was elected as general secretary of the soon-renamed National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks in 1894, holding the post until 1912. Through this, he attended the Trades Union Congress and became involved in the Labour Representation Committee. Margaret Bondfield was inspired to join the union after reading a letter from Macpherson in a newspaper.

He was Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) between 1989 and 1996 and between 1993 and 1996 of the TUC Executive Committee. Brooke is a Member of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the successor to the civil service union he led. On 23 October 1997, he was created a life peer as Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, of Alverthorpe in the County of West Yorkshire. He sits on the Labour benches.

James Mark Craigen (born 2 August 1938) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician. Born in Glasgow, Craigen was educated at the Shawlands Academy, then at Strathclyde University and Heriot-Watt University. From 1954 to 1961, he worked as a compositor. He then spent time with the Scottish Gas Board, and from 1964 to 1968 was Head of Organisation and Social Services with the Scottish Trades Union Congress, then moved to the Scottish Business Education Council.

Cuffay was the subject of a 2010 BBC Radio 4 programme entitled Britain's Black Revolutionary written and presented by the former trades union leader Bill Morris."Britain's Black Revolutionary", BBC Radio 4. Cuffay was also the subject of a 2011 ABC Hindsight radio documentary entitled Isle of Denial: William Cuffay in Van Diemen's Land, which was shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Award in 2012."Isle of Denial: William Cuffay in Van Diemen's Land", ABC Radio National Hindsight.

Michael Duffy was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official from Dunshaughlin, County Meath. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1936. He was a member of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1935. He was elected to the Free State Seanad for 9 years at the 1922 election, and was re- elected for another 9 years at the 1931 election.

Sadler stated that the Government had lost the confidence of the country by the mess and muddle both home and abroad. Sadler considered that the passage of the Education Act violated the great principle of public control of the expenditure of public money. Sadler was supported by the Trades Union Congress, for his promise to support legislation to remedy the Taff Vale decision. Bingham (Conservative) argued that a change of the Government would be disastrous to the British Empire.

The union was invited to join the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades (FEST) when it was formed in 1891, but refused to do so. It also had a turbulent relationship with the Trades Union Congress (TUC), not holding membership in 1905 or from 1907 to 1918. However, it was a founder member of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU). It finally joined the FEST in 1905, hoping to persuade its other members to amalgamate with it.

McDonnell's campaign concentrated on grassroots efforts, which earned him an endorsement from the Trades Union Congress. In a YouGov opinion poll of more than 1,100 Labour Party members asking their preferred choice in the leadership contest, McDonnell received 9% support, and was ranked second to Chancellor Gordon Brown, who led with 80% of the vote. Declared supporters included Diane Abbott, Tony Benn, and Ann Cryer. In total, eleven Labour MPs declared their support on McDonnell's campaign website.

In Adelaide, Zadow became an advocate for women working in clothing factories. She was a major contributor to the establishment of the Working Women's Trades Union in 1890 and was a delegate to the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia. Mary Lee, David Charleston and Zadow prepared a list of fair wages and prices for use in Adelaide. Zadow spoke in favor of women's suffrage and was a supporter of the Women's Suffrage League and Mary Lee.

On 22 January 1968, he was created Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne, of Ashton-under-Lyne in the County Palatine of Lancaster and took his seat in the House of Lords on 7 February. Later in 1968, he became General Secretary and President of the Trades Union Congress, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from Loughborough University. He married Kathleen Firth in 1933 and they had two sons. He died in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1974.

He subsequently pursued adult education through correspondence courses organised by the National Council of Labour Colleges. At 15, Lawrence Daly began work as a miner at Glencraig Colliery. At this time he also joined the Young Communist League. Daly was soon active in the Scottish Mineworkers' Union. His initial involvement was in the labour movement's youth wing; amongst other activities he represented the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) on an international youth delegation to Moscow in 1945.

In 1922, he transferred to the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Association (BISAKTA), and was elected as secretary of its Manchester branch the following year.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Jack Stanley", Report of the 1957 Annual Trades Union Congress Within BISAKTA, steel erectors felt that they should have a distinct section. Stanley worked with George House to form this, the Constructional Engineering Union, and became its full-time Northern organiser. The union grew rapidly, and became independent in 1930.

In 2002, the BBC uncovered that Gormley had worked for Special Branch by passing on information on extremism within his own union. A former Special Branch officer made this allegation and said that Gormley "loved his country. He was a patriot and he was very wary and worried about the growth of militancy within his own union". The BBC claimed, "Special Branch was talking to more than 20 senior trades union leaders during the early 1970s".

Before joining politics in 2001, Ng was the Senior Political Correspondent of The Straits Times. Irene has won several journalism and writing awards. After joining politics, she worked as Director of Programmes and Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and later, as a Director at National Trades Union Congress. In the 2001 and 2006 general elections, Ng's party, the People's Action Party, were up against the Singapore Democratic Alliance over Tampines GRC.

Tobacco Workers' Union, The Tobacco Workers' Union, 1834-1984 In 1925, the association became an industrial union, admitting all workers in the tobacco industry, including women, and adopted its final name. However, the following year, it was disaffiliated from the Trades Union Congress after other unions complained that it was poaching their members. It rejoined only in 1941.University of Warwick, "Tobacco Workers' Union" In 1946, the union merged with the rival National Cigar and Tobacco Workers' Union.

Adrian Gregory and Senia Paseta, Ireland and the Great War, p.85 he was elected to the Parliamentary Committee of the Irish Trades Union Congress every year from 1894 until 1909,Emmet O'Connor, "Problems of reform in the ITUC, 1894-1914" and served as President on three occasions, in 1899, 1907 and 1910.Donal Nevin, Trade Union Century, p.437 In the mid-1890s, McCarron, was a proponent of land nationalisation,William Patrick Ryan, The Irish Labor Movement, p.

Paul Nowak (born May 1972) is a British trade union official. Born in Bebington on the Wirral, Nowak started work at Asda at the age of seventeen, and immediately joined a union. He became Vice President of the Wirral Trades Union Council at the age of nineteen – the youngest person ever to hold the post. Taking posts in a variety of unions, Nowak has been an activist in the Communication Workers Union, GMB Union and Unison.

This union was a founder member of the Congress of Irish Unions, and Crawford served as its Secretary from 1946. In this role, he negotiated a merger between it and the rival Irish Trades Union Congress, the two amalgamating in 1959 to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU). He stood for election to the Seanad Éireann in 1951, but was not successful. Crawford was joint secretary of the ICTU until his retirement in 1966.

They approached the local Communist Party for support. At this time there were a number of communists in the factory, many with a history of industrial militancy in South Wales and elsewhere. Communists advised the strike committee to include demands for higher pay, better conditions and trades union recognition. That night, the Communist Party printed 1,000 leaflets to try to extend the strike to other groups in the factory and by Tuesday, 180 workers were on strike.

The Irish Print Union was a trade union representing print workers in Ireland. The union was founded in 1983 when the Irish Graphical Society merged with the Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union and the Electrotypers' and Stereotypers' Society of Dublin and District. However, the union struggled with declining employment in the industry, in particular as computerisation was introduced. Membership of the union fell, and in 1998 it merged into the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Trade Union.

On a re-vote, Murray again won election, this time beating Williams by 2,349 votes to 1,970. Williams again took legal action, but a further executive investigation found no issues, and Murray took up the post in October. He completed merger negotiations with the General and Municipal Workers' Union, and in December the USB became part of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMBATU). Murray was appointed as the secretary of the GMBATU's new boilermakers' section.

Morris returns to the factory floor rather than be a party to abandoning their other customers, and Adam takes his place. Meanwhile, a few of the workers, led by Baxter, are unhappy with the new, lower pay rate. Two trades union men are called in to try to sort things out, and Baxter eventually drops his objections. Dickinson shows up at the factory late at night and is invited in for a cup of cocoa by the watchman.

However, the increased stress of these positions led to a breakdown and Wallis retired to the country to recover. He returned to his career in 1908 and in 1909 was elected president of the Victorian branch of the Federated Clothing Trades Union of Australia. From 1912 he represented his union at state conferences of the Australian Labor Party. In 1920 Wallis was appointed secretary of the Clothing Trades Union's Victorian branch and edited its journal, the Clothing Trades Gazette.

He was a member of the Victorian Socialist Party and then the Labor Party, of which he was Collingwood branch secretary. From 1919 to 1936 he was an organiser with the Clothing Trades Union, and from 1937 to 1947 worked as a dog registrar and housing inspector for Collingwood City Council. In 1948 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne Province. He served as a Labor backbencher until his death at East Melbourne in 1960.

Tillett's union was the largest of the unions which came together in 1922 to form the Transport and General Workers' Union, however, it was Tillett's deputy, Ernest Bevin, rather than Tillett himself, who took the major role in bringing about the amalgamation. Bevin became the General Secretary of the new union, but Tillett held the post of International and Political Secretary until 1931 and retained his seat on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress until 1932.

The union focused its campaigns on reducing working hours, creating a half-day holiday per week, and setting up agreements to cover overtime pay."Michael O'Lehane", Irish Labour History Society The IDAA attracted particular attention for recruiting women. By 1914, 1,400 of its 4,000 members were women. The IDAA proved successful, and O'Lehane was elected to other positions in the union movement: President of Dublin Trades Council in 1909, and President of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1912.

He was also elected as a local councillor for the Labour Party."Roberts, Bryn", Who Was Who In 1929 he finished second behind Aneurin Bevan in the contest to find a Labour candidate for the Ebbw Vale constituency. In 1934, Roberts left the SWMF to become General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE). He represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and was the TUC's representative to the American Federation of Labour in 1942.

He represented this federation at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and in 1918 was elected to serve on the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC. The United Enginekeepers became the Scottish Colliery Enginemen, Boilermen and Tradesmen's Association, and Shirkie was additionally elected as its secretary. He attended the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, on the invitation of the British government, and in 1935 was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He retired in about 1942.

He became Editorial Advisor at the Daily Mirror, where he masterminded its campaign to support the Labour Party at the 1945 election. He later moved to supervise the Mirrors newspaper and radio operations in Australia, but returned to become general manager of the Daily Herald in 1952. Elliott became editor of the Herald in November 1953. In 1957, the Trades Union Congress rescinded its editorial control of the paper to Odhams Press, and Elliott left the paper.

Protestors gather in Sheffield to demonstrate against government plans to change public sector pensions. About 1,500 people gathered for a rally, picketing, speeches, a march and a political sing-song in the centre of Sheffield. A series of trades union speakers addressed the rallying crowd of teachers, civil servants and students outside Sheffield City Hall. There were protests at a few schools in the Sheffield area by students against the teacher's strikes, with several almost descending into violence.

The union was renamed the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union in 1930 and amalgamated with others to form the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) in 1947. Gibson remained General Secretary throughout these changes, but resigned in 1948. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in 1928 and remained a member until his retirement in 1948. He chaired the General Council and was President of the TUC from 1940 to 1941.

Ethical Threads is a clothing manufacturer based in the United Kingdom. The company is wholly owned by the Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council and the London Region GMB Union. The company was created as a source of ethical non-sweatshop clothing, and all producers follow international conventions of workers rights and will not employ child labour. Ethical Threads' organically grown cotton is supplied by the Vasudha Cotton Project in India to the Oeko-tex standard.

While studying, Arbib worked part-time at a Sizzler restaurant in Bondi Junction. When there were moves to remove penalty rates, he negotiated on behalf of the part-time workers and signed up members to the Liquor Trades Union. Later he worked variously as a metal trades assistant, beach inspector and restaurant cook, but became increasingly involved in the trade union movement. In 1989 he had a bit part in the Australian soap opera Home and Away.

Arendsee became politically engaged early on. She joined the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands / SPD) in 1906, and within it was responsible for "Women work" in Berlin between 1907 and 1916. In 1907 she also joined a trades union, also becoming a member of the precursor to the "Revolutionary Union Opposition" organisation. Between 1910 and 1919 she was employed by the Co-Op in Berlin, latterly in charge of the wages and social security department.

Between 1948 and 1953 she served as "second chair" on the national executive of the Agriculture and Forestry Union. Individual trades unions were relatively powerless, but her position as a representative of one of the fourteen recognised trades union s in East Germany made her a member of the ruling body of the important Free German Trade Union Federation ("Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund" / FDGB). Between 1958 and 1963 Marie Ahlers was a member of the ruling party's Audit Commission.

Bostock died the following year, and with Heady temporarily filling his post, Thorneycroft was promoted to become assistant general secretary. That year, he was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and to the executive of the International Transport Workers' Federation. Heady retired in 1949, and Thorneycroft now easily won election as the union's new general secretary. However, he too was nearing retirement, and so stood down from all his trade union posts in 1953.

In 1952, he was elected as secretary of the union's London Machine Branch, and then as secretary of the union's London Joint Branches group.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Owen O'Brien", Annual Report of the 1988 Trades Union Congress, p.336 He was elected as the union's assistant general secretary in 1964, and that year also became a governor of the London College of Printing, later chairing the organisation. In 1975, O'Brien was elected as general secretary of NATSOPA.

In 1922, he was elected as General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).Ian MacDougall, Voices from home, p.512 His focus was on increasing membership of the STUC, encouraging Scottish unions to merge into their UK-wide counterparts in order that the larger body would then affiliate. Although this approach was unpopular with Scottish trades councils, which saw their influence reduced, it proved successful, with membership growing by more than a third during his secretaryship.

Within the party he was an outspoken advocate, notably in respect of trades union matters. In 1920 the membership at Nuremberg's huge MAN truck plant elected him to the works council. Within the party he was a member of the regional leadership (Berzirksleitung), serving as chairman of it between 1921 and 1924. He represented the Nuremberg Communists at party conferences nationally, and, in the case of the Comintern Third World Congress held in Moscow in June 1921, internationally.

During the time he served on the committee he was instrumental in promoting a system of mill representatives. It was around this time that Cross and a few more enthusiasts succeeded in forming the Blackburn and District Trades and Labour Council, which he chaired for seven years.Report of the 1925 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.346 In 1892, he was appointed secretary of the Darwen Weavers' Association, and two years later became secretary of the Blackburn Weavers' Association.

She also gave speeches at the union's national conference and in 1989 was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. She supported more redistributive policies than previous AEU representatives, including a national minimum wage and all-women shortlists. In 1990, the AEU decided to create a full-time National Women's Officer post, and Rooney was elected. That year, she also won election to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and its Women's Committee.

Following a confrontation with the Trades Union Congress, which strongly opposed the proposals, and internal dissent from Home Secretary James Callaghan, the government substantially backed-down from its intentions. The Heath government (1970–1974) introduced the Industrial Relations Act 1971 with many of the same ideas, but this was largely repealed by the post-1974 Labour government. Some elements of these changes were subsequently to be enacted (in modified form) during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.

Jayne Baxter (born 5 November 1955) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region. She succeeded John Park when he resigned his list seat to take up a position with the Community trades union. A lifelong resident of Fife, she graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 1995. She currently serves as constituency agent for Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Alex Rowley.

Bakary, a leftist, helped push the party—already perceived as anti-French—in a populist direction. The PPN was allied to the pan-colony African Democratic Rally (RDA), which itself caucused with the French Communist Party in the National Assembly. Some elements, such as RDA leader Félix Houphouët-Boigny, were uncomfortable with this connection. Many in the PPN felt the same way, while many other, grouped around Bakary and the tiny Nigerien Trades Union movement, pulled to the left.

The union had a membership of over 10,000 by 1910, and attempted to expand outside London, but the Trades Union Congress instituted arbitration which limited it to a fifteen-mile radius of central London, the Typographical Association having rights to organise in the remainder of England. In 1955, the Society merged with the Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society and was renamed the London Typographical Society. In 1964, it merged with the Typographical Association to form the National Graphical Association.

The union formed in 1903 as the Association of Shorthand Writers and Typists and changed its name in 1912 to AWCS.Archives Hub It grew, partly because of World War I, from fewer than 900 members in 1916 to around 8000 in 1920. It became a member of the Trades Union Congress in 1919.Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries at Working Class Movement Library Anne Godwin joined the union in 1920 and became its main organizer in 1928.

Frederick Albert Baker (died November 2002), known as Ken Baker, was a British trade unionist. Baker joined the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, and became a shop steward. He gradually rose to prominence in the union, eventually becoming its National Officer. He regularly represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), serving on the General Council of the TUC from 1976 to 1985, and also on the TUC's Employment Policy and Organisation Committee.

Frank McLeod Kirwan (23 October 1937 – 28 October 1976) was an Australian politician. Born in Norseman, Western Australia, he was educated at state schools and the School of Mines in Norseman, Western Australia, after which he became an electrical fitter. He was an official with the Electrical Trades Union and was also a Methodist minister. In 1969, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Forrest, defeating Liberal minister Gordon Freeth.

Finally reaching an agreement with the British government, Ali called off the strikes. However, the federation continued to campaign in other fields such as the release and re-employment of imprisoned lascars. They lobbied the Home Secretary, Samuel Hoare, and called on the Trades Union Congress in Glasgow for support. On his return to Bengal, Ali became the vice president of the All-India Trade Union Congress and continued his role in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

The union representatives were subsequently assaulted by military officers while still at the mill, then taken to Namaka military barracks and subjected to further beatings. As they were released from the barracks, they were again threatened with further violence.""Fiji: End military intimidation and beatings of union officials" , Trades Union Congress, March 2011 In July, Australia's Transport Workers Union threatened to disrupt flights to Fiji unless Qantas took steps to protect its Fiji-based workers "from state-sanctioned violence.

Vickers was born in Liverpool. Her year of birth was thought to be 1948, but an article about her in April 2020 gave her age as 70, which suggests she was born in 1949 or 1950. Her mother, Freddie, was a social worker and her father, J.O.N. Vickers, a trades union leader, were both members of the British communist party until 1956. They were friends of J.B.S. Haldane and T.H.White had taught her father English at school.

William Tallon (1902 - 29 November 1978) was a British trade unionist. Tallon worked at Leyland Motors, where he joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU). He held a variety of posts in his union branch and, later, at district level, and was elected as secretary of the joint shop stewards committee at Leyland, then became a full-time regional officer for the union.Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: William Tallon", Annual Report of the 1979 Trades Union Congress, p.

Her former trades union colleague, Paul Müller, had fled to Switzerland in 1934, and later recalled that during 1938 Johanna travelled to visit her son in Switzerland, where she stayed for some months. During this time she was able to have meetings with a number of exiled German trades unionists and with leaders of the Swiss Social Democratic Party. This did nothing to endear her to the German government. But eventually she returned home to Nazi Germany.

Addison was Secretary General of the maritime workers union but was ousted in 1955. He remained unemployed until August 1958 when he was made principal of the Ghana Labour College by the Ghana Trade Union Congress. A year later he was made the administrative secretary of the tade union congress. He worked in this position for about six months and was later moved to the Economic Department of the Trades Union Congress serving there as a director.

After the war, Allott returned to London, and became the organiser for the London Wholesale Textile Branch of NAUSAWC. He also served on the executive of the London Trades Council, and as a delegate to the Trades Union Congress. He proposed a scheme for daily, evening and weekly Labour Party publications, but although it was discussed in the Labour Party press, it was not adopted. In his spare time, he also wrote poetry and some articles for the press.

In 1976, Kendall moved to become secretary of the staff side of the Whitley Council for the Civil Service, in 1980 becoming secretary of its successor, the Council of Civil Service Unions. In this role, he was known for his close working relationship with his press officer, Jimmy O'Dea, and spent considerable amounts of time courting the media. Although nominated repeatedly for the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, he was never elected, and he retired in 1983.

Radusch continued working for the post office till 1930. In 1924 she had joined the Communist Party itself, and from 1929 till 1932 Radusch served as a Communist Party city councillor in Berlin. In 1932 she was no longer listed as a communist candidate for the city council elections, due to the scandalising impact of her disinclination to conceal her lesbian private life. In 1931 Radusch joined the Communist party's alternative "special" postal workers' trades union.

4 He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and became a full-time agent of the union in 1956. He served as the Mineworkers' representative on the Scottish Trades Union Congress' (STUC) General Council, and served as President of the STUC in 1967/68.Ian MacDougall, Voices from Work and Home, p.514 In 1968, McLean became a vice-president of the Scottish Area, then the following year was elected as its general secretary.

Albert Kayser (28 November 1898 - 18 October 1944) was a German trades union official, political activist and politician (KPD). In July 1932 he was elected a member of the national parliament (Reichststag). By the time democracy was suspended, in March 1933, he had already been arrested and detained by government authorities. He was released at the end of 1933 and spent much of 1934 and early 1935 living "underground" (unregistered with any city hall) engaged in political resistance.

He also became increasingly involved in popular education within Sweden, becoming a respected lecturer. One of his books, "Wohlstand, Frieden und Sicherheit" ("Welfare, Peace and Security") was adopted as a teaching text by the Swedish Education Organisation and used in secondary schools. By this time his commitment to education was becoming more important to him than party political involvement. From 1942 he was also engaged in the trades union association, contributing regularly to its weekly news magazine.

Normansell became a nationally prominent leader of the miners, attending the first few annual Trades Union Congresses, and organising an important annual miners' gala. He first stood for election to Barnsley Town Council as a Liberal-Labour representative in 1871, and was successful the following year, the first worker to win election to the council. From 1874, a recession led to a decline in the mining industry. Normansell recommended that SYMA members accepted wage reductions, which proved highly controversial.

"Obituary: Charles N. Gallie", Annual Report of the 1960 Trades Union Congress, p.314 Gallie was also active in the Labour Party, and stood in Forfar at the 1924 and 1929 United Kingdom general elections, taking third place on each occasion.Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927The Times, 1 June 1929 In 1940, Gallie was promoted to become Chief Assistant Secretary of the RCA. Later in the year, General Secretary William Stott died, and Gallie was elected to fill the post.

Dorothy Evans (1893 - 22 September 1943) was a British trade union leader. Born in Stockport, Evans was educated at Stockport High School, then studied at the University of Manchester.Cheryl Law, Women: A Modern Political Dictionary, pp.59-60 From 1918 to 1931, she served as general secretary of the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries (AWCS), and through this was active at the Trades Union Congress, serving on the Standing Joint Committee of Working Women's Organisations.

He became increasingly prominent in the ASE, winning election to its general council in 1891. In 1892, this was replaced by an executive council, and Jones narrowly won election as a district delegate. He was also active on the Cardiff Trades Council, and represented his union at the Trades Union Congress. Jones ran for the general secretaryship of the union in 1909, and narrowly defeated David S. Gardner, the union's chairman, by somewhat more than 18,000 votes to 15,000.

Till 1957 Helene Altmann-Postranecky worked as a full-time official with the Lower Austria regional party leadership. After that she continued to work on a voluntary basis in the trades union department. In 1968 or 1970 she resigned her party membership, however, unable to be reconciled to the crushing of the Prague Spring in neighbouring Czechoslovakia by a Warsaw pact military invasion. She died in Vienna a couple of months short of her 92nd birthday in 1995.

He had been chairman of the Public Health Inspectors' Association and the Kowloon General Union of the Urban Services Department. He was also the English secretary of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council. In 1971, he was elected to be the Hong Kong representative to the 7th Asian Congress of the International Labour Organization. From 1971 to 1981, he was member of the Labour Advisory Board, to advise the government on the labour issues.

Urquhart Edward "Ted" Innes (12 February 1925 - 28 May 2010) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was the Victorian Secretary and National President of the Electrical Trades Union before entering politics. In 1972, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Melbourne; the following year, he was made president of the Victorian Labor Party, a position he held for that year. He held the seat until his retirement in 1983.

Samuel Caldwell Nicholson (died 1891) was a British trade unionist. Nicholson was a compositor who became the Treasurer of the Manchester Typographical Society. In 1864, he was elected the first President of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council. After hearing from William Dronfield, Secretary of the Sheffield Typographical Society, of the lack of interest in trade union matters at the Congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Nicholson proposed forming a Trades Union Congress (TUC).

For Otto Brenner political and social democracy were indivisible. Therefore, his principal twin-track objective for the postwar order was for economic democracy and co-determination. Even if the top priority for a negotiation was wage rates, his approach to trades union strategy was always a far wider one, grounded in a social philosophical vision. For him the unions had a comprehensive political, social and cultural mandate to fulfill: that involved achieving social change through democratic methods.

In 1899, Smillie compelled the Scottish mineowners to set up a conciliation board after much trouble, and he played an active part in setting up the Scottish Trades Union Congress, which made him such an outstanding activist. At the first STUC meeting in 1897, he came second in the ballot for president, but at the first meeting of the committee he was appointed chairman. Eight out of eleven of the delegates were supporters of the ILP.

National Union of Shop Assistants, The Times, 9 April 1901, p.5 In 1906 he was elected Labour MP for Newton, Lancashire. He held the seat at the subsequent general election in January, 1910, but was defeated by 144 votes in the December 1910 poll.Last Night's Returns - The Unionist Gains, The Times, 8 December 1910, p.10 Seddon continued his work with the union movement, was reselected as Labour candidate for Newton and elected a member of the parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1911.Trades Union Congress, The Times, 11 September 1911, p.5 In 1915 he was elected President of the TUC. In 1915 Seddon became a founding member of the Socialist National Defence Committee. The SNDC was short-lived, becoming part of the British Workers League in 1916. In 1917 he resigned from the Labour Party, citing a "change of view" caused by the First World War.Labour Candidate's Change of View, The Times, 27 March 1917, p.5 In late spring 1918 the British Worker's League resolved to become a parliamentary party.

He saw it as his central task to combat the exploitation of young workers and abuse by employers of the apprentice system. Within the union it is reported by numerous contemporary witnesses that whenever conflicts arose involving older colleagues, if there was any doubt over the situation, Bleicher would stand behind "his trusted young people". Willi Bleicher remained a consistent advocate of trades union unity. This, for him, was one of the most important lessons from Germany's recently catastrophic history. The Communist Party's anti-trades union policies must accordingly have played a decisive role in triggering his (second) resignation from it in April 1950, even though it was not till the "Munich Party Conference" (actually, and confusingly, held in Weimar in East Germany) of March 1951 that the Communist Party in West Germany (heavily influence by the Soviet backed "communists" in East Germany) were savagely attacked in the grotesque "Thesis 37", accused of running their organisation "at the direction and in the interests of American imperialism and in collusion with German monopolists ... in service to preparation for the next war".

He proved immediately successful in the role, particularly in negotiations with employers. During the UK general strike, he tried to get the Trades Union Congress paper, the British Worker, printed in Leicester, but was overruled by the union, which felt that journalists should not undertake any work during the action. Bundock was elected as general secretary of the NUJ in 1937, holding the post until 1952. That year, the International Federation of Journalists was re-established, and Bundock became its president.

He also joined the Labour Party, serving as a councillor and as deputy mayor of Peterborough. In 1932, he was selected as the party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Ashton- under-Lyne, although he did not ultimately stand."Labour's choice at Ashton", Manchester Guardian, 17 September 1932 In 1943, Benstead was elected as the NUR's general secretary, also serving on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. In 1946, he was additionally elected as President of the International Transport Workers' Federation.

He was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, in 1970, serving for eight years. In addition, he served on the Shipbuilding Industry Training Board, the council of Acas, the Royal Commission on Legal Services, Council on Tribunals, Gypsy Council, and Committee of Inquiry into Prison Services. Edmondson retired from his union work in 1977, and from his remaining roles by 1984, spending his retirement breeding and showing Shetland Sheepdogs, and enjoyed attending the Appleby Horse Fair.

She also served as a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1998 until 2006"In ToUCh: Issue 5 2011/12" ; retrieved 8 February 2012 and was awarded an MBE in 1998 "for services to industrial relations". After retiring, Carey was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and became active in the Merseyside branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, serving as a branch committee member. She died of motor neurone disease on 23 January 2012, aged 73.

Karl Höltermann was born in Pirmasens, a town near the German border with France and Luxembourg known, then as now a centre of Germany's shoe manufacturing industry. Sources describe his father as "a shoe maker and trade union functionary". He was still an infant when the family relocated to Nuremberg, which is where he grew up, and where he was apprenticed as a typesetter. Early on he joined the Young Socialists, a trades union and, a little later, the Social Democratic Party.

188 This brought him to national attention, and he travelled the country giving speeches in support of the union."Memorial notices: Mr G. M. Ball", Manchester Guardian, 9 June 1903 In 1875, he moved to Witham in Essex to organise the union's important North Essex district. He was also elected as the union's vice-president, and served on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress. By 1877, NALU was in decline, and focusing more of its resources on political campaigns.

According to "The Derby Mercury" some of the former unionists were never able to find fresh employment in Derby. This event is commemorated by a march organised by the Derby Trades Union Council annually on the weekend before MayDay. The story of the Derby Lock-out was dramatised as a short film sponsored by Unite the union in 2015. This was first screened at Derby Quad cinema on 25 April 2015 Derby Silk Mill, probably in the early 1900s, before the 1910 fire.

In 1988, he was elected as general secretary of the union, and he became prominent on the Trades Union Congress' Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industries Committee. The footwear and leather industry was in decline, so, working with Bob Stevenson, Browett organised a merger between NUFLAT and the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers, forming the National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades. He was appointed as the union's first general secretary, but retired in September 1992. He died two years later.

A few years later, he became secretary of his local miners' lodge, and was later elected as a checkweighman, and as the union's agent for the St Helen's area."Obituary: Edwin Hall", Annual Report of the 1961 Trades Union Congress, p.291 In 1942, Hall was elected as vice-president of the LCMF, and as its president in 1944. The following year, the union became the Lancashire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, and Hall was elected as the area's general secretary.

Timoci Naivaluwaqa (1953 – 16 January 2006) was a Fijian trade unionist and a founding member of the Fiji Labour Party in 1985. Naivaluwaqa was General Secretary of the Fiji Hotel and Catering Union FHCU from 1999 till his death, and also served as President of the Fiji Trades Union Congress. Prior to working for the FHCU, Naivaluwaqa worked in the sugar industry and was based in Labasa. Naivaluwaqa died of kidney failure on 16 January 2006 at the age of 52.

The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union of 1834 was an early attempt to form a national union confederation in the United Kingdom. There had been several attempts to form national general unions in the 1820s, culminating with the National Association for the Protection of Labour, established in 1830. However, this had soon failed, and by the early 1830s the most influential labour organization was the Operative Builders' Union.G. N. Clark, New Cambridge Modern History: the zenith of European power, 1830-70, p.

He assisted T. D. Baffoe as a publicist for the Trades Union Congress and later became editor of the Ghanaian Times with T. D. Baffoe as the chief editor. In June 1965, he became the member of parliament for the Manso constituency as a member of the Convention People's Party. He remained in parliament until the overthrow of the Nkrumah government in 1966. After the overthrow, he became the editor of the Evening Standard, a newspaper that was owned by Komla Agbeli Gbedemah.

Elli Barczatis was born in Berlin 1912, the daughter of a master tailor. She attended school locally between 1918 and 1926 before embarking on a traineeship as a saleswoman with a small publishing company, "Banzhaff-Verlag". She switched in 1928, working as a typist for a book dealership called Karl Block. In 1929 she joined the Gewerkschaftsbund der Angestellten, a trades union for clerical workers, and between 1929 and 1933 attended evening classes in order to gain a higher secretarial qualification.

Ang Hin Kee (; born 22 October 1965) is a Singaporean politician and businessperson. A member of the Singapore-based political party People's Action Party (PAP), Ang serves as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) for Cheng San-Seletar from 7 May 2011 till 23 June 2020. He is the Assistant Director-General of National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and also has a position at the National Taxi Association (NTA) and the Education Services Union (ESU).

Roper, who was now Censor of Christ > Church, had hustled them all together to vote us out of office, as indeed > they did. It was the kind of plot the CP had perfected in the British > trades-union movement, and Roper had clearly studied the party's methods. > His delight at the success of his scheme was so transparent and schoolboyish > that I had to laugh. though the rest of the Monks [colloquial term for > students at Magdalen College] were very annoyed.

In the 1955 general election Farey-Jones was adopted for Watford and succeeded in winning the seat from Labour, whose sitting MP John Freeman had retired at the election. In Parliament he became known as a rare speaker, but he supported the invasion of Suez and regretted that the troops were withdrawn. He often spoke about trade union issues, attacking left-wing and communist infiltration of the Electrical Trades Union among others. Farey-Jones was also known for his international visits.

Under the federation, by 1836 around fifty unions had formed in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Washington, D.C., Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Louisville, Kentucky; and elsewhere. While some organized national unions within their crafts, most participated in citywide "trades' unions," which established the short-lived National Trades' Union in 1834 under the presidencies of first Ely Moore then John Commerford. The NTU collapsed with most of its constituent bodies during the panic of 1837.

Robert Griffiths, "1911 When the State fired on civilians", Socialist History Society ASLEF set up a GWR Delegation Board in 1915, and Squance was chosen as its first secretary; he was elected to the union's executive the following year, then served as vice-president in 1919/20 and president in 1920/21. In 1920, he was appointed to the National Wages Board, serving for eight years."Obituary: Mr W. J. R. Squance", Annual Report of the 1948 Trades Union Congress, p.

From 1980 Kenton produced commemorative pottery for the trade union movement and for radical causes. His work was commissioned by Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, Tobacco Workers' Union, Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, Trades Union Congress, areas of the National Union of Mineworkers, the People's March for Jobs, the International Brigade, Greater London Council Peace Year, National Council for Civil Liberties, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the Greenham Common women's campaign. Kenton had two children and two granddaughters.

Horan quickly began a campaign of Americanism in BSEIU, pushing his members to learn English and become American citizens.Wren, "Plans Council to Lead Fight on Open Shop," Chicago Daily Tribune, September 14, 1930. By the fall of 1929, his political fortunes within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had risen to the point where he was named a member of the AFL delegation to the annual meeting of the British Trades Union Congress.Evans, "Galpin's Ward Is Reorganized," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 8, 1929.

This post, which he held for forty years, also took him onto the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He was also active in the Labour Party. He became involved in local politics in Southwark and was Mayor of the Borough of Southwark from 1919 to 1921. In the 1922 general election he fought Gravesend and was narrowly defeated; he was readopted to fight the seat in the 1923 election and won it from the Conservatives with a majority of 119.

Despite this, the general trend was upwards, with 58 branches in 1866 rising to 72 by 1874. Sharples was also active at the Trades Union Congress, and was an auditor of the congress in 1883 and 1887. However, by this point the union was struggling, membership falling to only 1,863 and 35 branches by 1888. That year, the General Council began issuing circulars claiming that Sharples was incompetent, ignoring letters and sometimes giving illegal advice, while the Executive Council issued circulars defending him.

At the 1900 UK general election, Fletcher stood in Glasgow Camlachie for the Scottish Workers' Representation Committee. The Committee had been set up by the Scottish Trades Union Congress and he was its only candidate at the election. He attracted the support of the Independent Labour Party, the Social Democratic Federation, the Glasgow Trades Council and, at the last moment, was endorsed by the Liberal Party, but he was not elected.I. G. C. Hutchison, A Political History of Scotland, 1832-1924, p.

He was often embroiled in controversy concerning Communist infiltration. In 1977 he alleged that five prominent trades union officials were agents for communist countries, based on tape recordings made by the Czech defector Josef Frolík. The following year, before Margaret Thatcher came into office, Hastings and Brian Crozier wrote her a paper setting out "the diabolical nature of the Communist conspiracy" against Britain. At Hastings's suggestion she appointed a committee comprising Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Keith Joseph and Hastings himself.

He also served a year as an auditor of the Trades Union Congress, and was a trustee of the Cotton Memorial Fund. Duxbury was a supporter of the Labour Party, and served on Chadderton Urban District Council for nine years. In 1923, he was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, serving a single year."Scenes at the Labour conference", Manchester Guardian, 29 June 1923 In 1930, Duxbury served on a commission to investigate cotton production in East Asia.

This became Equity, and he was elected as its first secretary.Report of Annual Trades Union Congress (1973), p.434Alan Clinton, The trade union rank and file: trades councils in Britain, 1900-40, p.173 Later in the 1930s, he also served as a vice-president of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee,"Aid to Spain", Modern Records Centre, Warwick University In 1938, Wall was elected as General Secretary of the London Society of Compositors, and stood down from the London Trades Council.

This is a list of trade unions in the United Kingdom formed under UK labour law. The criteria for being an independent trade union, free from employer influence and domination, are set out in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 section 5. The body which oversees unions, and awards a certificate of independence for the purpose of collective bargaining is the Trades Union Certification Officer. For the context and history see Trade unions in the United Kingdom.

Beasley became involved in the labour movement as a shop steward for the Electrical Trades Union of Australia (ETU). He served as the union's president from 1924 to 1930, and was one of its delegates to the Labor Council of New South Wales, serving as president of the council from 1922 to 1928. Beasley was elected to the state executive of the Australian Labor Party in June 1923. Although initially sympathetic to communism and supportive of Jock Garden, he later moderated his views.

That same year, he was promoted to Assistant to the Technical Department Manager at S.C.O.A. after 20 years of meritorious service to the company. At the 13th Annual Conference, in Sekondi-Takoradi he was elected President of the Ghana Trades Union Congress and also served as Director of Education. He was an Affiliate Member of the Institute of Personnel Management (London). In 1957 he was a member of the Advisiory Work Committee and also a member of the College of Technology Council.

The Caretakers' Union (, KL) was a trade union representing janitors in Finland. The union was founded in 1948 and affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions, and from 1969, to its successor, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. It had only 2,228 members in 1955, but by 1998, this had grown to 13,881. In 2000, it merged with the Business Union, the Technical and Special Trades Union, and the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union, to form the Service Union United.

In 1927 she switched her membership from the young socialist workers to the Young Communists. Both Koschnick and Stamm saw to it that she attended courses at the trades union and party training academies. In 1929 she joined the Communist Party itself and in 1930, still aged only 23, she was elected as a Communist Party member to the Bremen regional parliament ("Bremische Bürgerschaft"). By 1930 she had also become a member of the works council at the jute mill.

In 1966, he was elected as a Branch Secretary in the Electrical Trades Union, later the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU). He became an executive councillor of EETPU in 1987 and its President in 1992. In 1995, following EETPU's incorporation into the AEEU, he became AEEU General Secretary. Following the merger of AEEU and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union (MSF) to form Amicus, Jackson automatically assumed the role of Joint General Secretary of the AEEU Section of Amicus.

The Fiji Trades Union Congress did not wish to be officially associated with the visit although the invitation was sent to them. At the time, Sukhdeo was a vice- president and Krishna Datt the general secretary of the newly formed Fiji Labour Party. On the way to Moscow, both of them were given new passports by the Russian embassy in Singapore. In Moscow, both of them had informal discussions with the WFTU officials and in Berlin WFTU Conference were accorded front line seats.

Daniel Chater in the 1930s.Daniel Chater (1870 – 25 May 1959) was a British Labour Co-operative politician. A member of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, he was active for twenty-five years in the trades union and co-operative movements before being elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Hammersmith South constituency in the 1929 general election. However, he had only a slim majority - 412 votes - and lost the seat in the 1931 general election.

191 By the 1890s, he was secretary of Edinburgh Trades Council.The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98, p.249 He was elected to Edinburgh City Council in 1893, only the second Liberal-Labour member of the council."Obituary: Ex-Baillie Mallinson", Manchester Guardian, 14 January 1929 When the Trades Union Congress (TUC) came to Edinburgh in 1896, he served as its President, and at the congress was also elected as its representative to the American Federation of Labour.

He thereafter began lecturing on the desirability of a trades federation, and relocated to London, where he wrote weekly for The Clarion. Robert Blatchford approved of King's federation proposal; he co-authored a pamphlet on the topic with King, and serialised King's ideas in The Clarion under his own pseudonym. The Clarion sponsored the foundation of the "NIGFLTU", a democratic trades federation, but the Trades Union Congress backed a rival proposal, forming the General Federation of Trade Unions, and King's scheme proved unsuccessful.

Donal Nevin (20 January 1924 - 16 December 2012) was an Irish trade unionist. Born in Limerick, Nevin was educated at a Christian Brothers school before joining the civil service. His next job, from 1949, was as research officer of the Irish Trades Union Congress. In 1959, this merged with the rival Congress of Irish Unions to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), and Nevin continued as its research officer until 1966, when he was promoted to become Assistant General Secretary.

In 1908 he moved to Carnarvon, where he became involved in the labor movement. He became a member of the Australian Workers' Union, and on 21 October 1911 was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Gascoyne for the Labor Party. He held the seat until the election of 4 November 1914, by which time he was living at Highgate. McDonald returned to Victoria in 1914, joining the Liquor Trades Union and obtaining work in a soft drink factory.

He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, serving from 1975 to 1985, and again from 1986 until his retirement. Politically, he was considered to have moved from the left-wing of the union to the centre or right during this period."Communists blamed for loss of Council seat", The Guardian, 3 September 1975 Morton retired as general secretary in 1990, but remained president of the FIM until 2002, and president emeritus of the FIM thereafter.

The union was founded in 1902 from the merger of the Alliance Cabinet Makers' Association and the United Operative Cabinet and Chairmakers Society of Scotland. In 1911, the Amalgamated Society of Gilders and Amalgamated Society of French Polishers both merged into the new organisation."Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union", Working Class Movement Library In 1907, the union had 7,007 members. In 1946, the union merged with the Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers to form the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives.

He began working for the Musicians' Union in 1990 as a Music Business Advisor, becoming the union's London officer in 1997 and assistant general secretary in 2003. In 2017, he was elected as general secretary of the Musicians' Union, defeating Kathy Dyson.Conrad Landin, "Which of this pair will strike the right note for musicians?", Morning Star, 7 March 2017Georgia Snow, "Horace Trubridge elected Musicians' Union general secretary", The Stage, 28 March 2017 He also joined the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision, pp.124-125 With the creation of ITV, the association aimed to expand its remit to cover the new broadcaster, and accordingly renamed itself the Association of Broadcasting Staff (ABS) in 1956. This was unsuccessful, but the ABS was recognised by the Independent Television Authority. In 1963, the ABS finally affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and was able to normalise its relations with other TUC members.

Burke topped the poll in the trade union section ballot for the Labour Party National Executive in October 1950."Labour Party Conference", The Times, 4 October 1950, p. 3. When the Bevanite faction in the Labour Party issued a pamphlet in September 1951, it attacked Burke for supporting Hugh Gaitskell's budget in the National Executive despite the fact that his union had put forward a motion at the Trades Union Congress criticising it."Bevanites' New Pamphlet", The Times, 21 September 1951, p. 3.

In July 2017 McDonald introduced a Private Members' Bill to ban unpaid trial shifts for workers. He called the practice "exploitation" for young job-seekers, and his Bill gained the support of the Scottish Trades Union Congress and National Union of Students among others. In March 2018 the Bill was talked out of the Commons meaning it could not be voted on. A year on from when he first introduced the Bill, he vowed to "keep fighting" to end unpaid trial work.

Special Branch wanted him sacked as soon as possible; Glading was thus in the latter group. In 1928, he and others were dismissed for "refusing to renounce their communist beliefs" and, at least in Glading's case, for being an agitator. He demanded of his Inspector what right the man had to impose "political fitness" on Arsenal employees. Glading appealed to his trade union for support, and the AEU brought the matter to the attention of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

The shipbuilder John Wigham Richardson was a prominent Newcastle upon Tyne Quaker. His office at the centre of the shipyard was always open to his workers for whom he cared greatly and he was a founder of the Workers’ Benevolent Trust in the region, (a forerunner to the trades’ union movement). Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, the builders of the RMS Mauretania, refused to build war ships on account of his pacifist beliefs. Quakers actively promoted equal rights during this century as well.

A few years later the assassination plot against Hitler failed in its primary objective but succeeded in making the government acutely nervous. They dusted down a pre-prepared plan and on the night of 22/23 August 1944 mass arrests took place across Germany in an exercise identified as "Aktion Gitter". What the people arrested had in common was that before 1933 they had been listed as active politically, usually as members of the Communist Party, the SPD or the trades union movement.

Eikemeier was born in central Germany, in a small village some 10 km (6 miles) east of Hamelin. His father was a glass worker and, after leaving school, Fritz Eikemeier took a job in a glass factory, joining a trades union and the left- leaning Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association in 1922. In 1926, a period of unemployment followed, after which he worked in quarrying and, later, on railroad construction. He joined the Communist Party (KPD) in 1930, becoming a local party leader.

Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal education.

Great Russell Street viewed from its junction with Bloomsbury Street Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, best known for being the location of the British Museum. It runs between Tottenham Court Road (part of the A400 route) in the west, and Southampton Row (part of the A4200 route) in the east. It is one-way only (eastbound) between its western origin at Tottenham Court Road and Bloomsbury Street. The headquarters of the Trades Union Congress is located at Nos.

1, pp.83-84 The union joined the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1942, but was expelled in 1972 for registering under the Industrial Relations Act, against TUC policy, but it rejoined in 1973. In 1976, the union decided to recruit managers and engineers from other industries, and the following year, the Association of Supervisory and Executive Engineers joined, the EPEA soon after adopting its final name. In 1979, the British Aerospace Staffs Association and the Professional Staffs Association also joined.

After the Irish Civil War, Molony became the second female president of the Irish Trades Union Congress.Regan, Nell, 'Helena Molony (1883-1967)' in Mary Cullen and Maria Luddy (eds.), Female Activists Irish Women and Change (Dublin, 2001), p. 162 She remained active in the republican cause during the 1930s, particularly with the Women's Prisoner's Defense League and the People's Rights Association. She retired from public life in 1946, but continued to work for women's labour rights; she died in Dublin in 1967.

Total employment in Australian textile, clothing and footwear manufacturing (thousands of people) since 1984 The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) was a trade union in Australia. It represented a wide range of workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and felt hatting industries. The TCFUA was formed 1 July 1992 by the merger of the Amalgamated Footwear & Textile Workers' Union of Australia and the Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia. It was affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Jack in 1895 James Millar Jack (1847 or 1848 - 28 September 1912) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. Jack came to prominence as a member of the Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland (AIMS), and was elected as its general secretary in November 1879.Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on Labour: Appendices, Group A, p.195 He also represented the union at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and was elected to the TUC's Parliamentary Committee in 1884.

Frank Donachy (20 February 1899 - 1 February 1970) was a Scottish trade unionist. Born in Glasgow, Donachy served in World War I. After demobilisation, he became a railway signalman, and joined the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR). In 1941, he was appointed as the union's full-time Glasgow and West of Scotland Organiser, then moved to become East of Scotland Organiser. In 1949, he was also elected to the executive of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, serving as its president in 1957.

Sat Pal Khattar is a recipient of the May Day Award on a number of occasions. In 1979, he received the NTUC Distinguished Service Award, followed by the Meritorious Service Award in 1987, the Distinguished Service Award in 1994, and the Distinguished Service (Star) Award in 2001 from the National Trades Union Congress. During his tenure with Inland Revenue Department, he received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1972. He has also received the Overseas Indian Award from Priyadarshini Academy.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) was established in 1868 and formed a committee to act on its decisions and direct activities between conferences. Initially, this was an informal body, and the leading role in the movement was taken by the unelected "Junta", with limited backing from their Conference of Amalgamated Trades. In 1871, they decided to dissolve their organisation and throw their support behind the TUC.G. D. H. Cole, A Short History of the British Working Class Movement: 1848-1900, pp.

The union was based at Engineers' Hall on College Street in Belfast, where the Flax Roughers' and Yarn Spinners' Trade Union and Power Loom Tenters Trade Union of Ireland also had their headquarters. It affiliated to the Irish Trades Union Congress and to the Belfast Trades Council. Membership of the union was already over 1,300 in the 1880s and remained fairly steady, being 1,184 in 1913. That year, the union was renamed as the Flax Dressers' and Linen Workers' Trade Union.

"Secretary appointed", Irish Times, 9 February 1934 Drumgoole was also active in the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC), serving on its general council from 1931, and as its President in 1936/37. However, in 1945, he led the IUDWC out of the ITUC as a founder constituent of the Congress of Irish Unions, and served as the Chairman of Congress for six years. Drumgoole was an unsuccessful Labour Party candidate for Seanad Éireann at both the 1948 and 1951 elections.

He joined the German Metal Workers' Union in 1923, later becoming a member of the Revolutionary Trades Union Opposition (RGO / Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition) movement. In 1931 Hofmann joined the Communist Party (KPD / Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands). In March 1931 he set off from Kiel in a kayak and succeeded in getting himself via Denmark, Sweden and Finland to Kronstadt, the principal port adjacent to Leningrad (as it was then called). He also succeeded in obtaining a residence permit in the Soviet Union.

Employment tribunals were created as industrial tribunals by the Industrial Training Act 1964. Industrial tribunals were judicial bodies consisting of a lawyer, who was the chairman, an individual nominated by an employer association, and another by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) or by a TUC-affiliated union. These independent panels heard and made legally binding rulings in relation to employment law disputes. Under the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998, their name was changed to employment tribunals from 1 August 1998.

NTUC FairPrice Co-Operative (Chinese: 新加坡职工总会平价合作社, கூட்டுறவு, ) is a supermarket chain based in Singapore and the largest in the country. The company is a co-operative of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). The group has 100 supermarkets across the island, with over 160 outlets of Cheers convenience stores island-wide. NTUC FairPrice has partnered with ExxonMobil to run several stations with a FairPrice branding at the minimarts at their stations.

War ended in May 1945 and attention turned to the urgent tasks of reconstruction. Becker returned to Schwenningen, by now part of the French occupation zone (and after May 1949 part of the German Federal Republic / West Germany). His focus was on rebuilding the Communist Party and the metal workers' trades union, relaunched in 1949 as IG Metall. For several months in 1945 he served as deputy mayor of Schwenningen - still at this point a poist filled by appointment rather than through election.

They were married until his death in 2013. In 1968 her painting The Red Skirt was chosen by the Royal Academy of Arts to be exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 1969 her work was again chosen to be entered into the summer exhibition, this time showing an oil painting titled Putney Bridge. In 1970 she was commissioned by Vic Feather to produce an exhibition at Congress House, the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress, in London, where she showed Propellers.

He led two strikes, both successful, resulting in increases in wages and a maximum nine- hour day. In 1872, Bradford Trades Council was refounded, and Shaftoe was elected as its first president. He was seriously injured in 1875, and took two years out of union activism, but returned, then in 1882, instead became secretary of the trades council. He also regularly attended the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and was elected as President of the TUC when it met in Bradford in 1888.

Between 1994 and 1997, he was the editor of the Big Issue in the Midlands, then in 1997 became the National Organiser of the NUJ. In 2001, Dear was elected as the General Secretary of the NUJ, its youngest ever leader, and only the second to serve two terms. He also spent time as a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. As leader, Dear became known as a member of the "Awkward Squad" of left-wing trade unionists.

In 1971, the Scottish Motormen became part of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), and Duffy was elected to the TGWU's executive council. In 1988, he was elected as the chair of the TGWU, and that year he also won election to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. In 1992, he stood down from the General Council, and instead won election to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. He retired from all his posts in 1996.

Aegis is a trade union representing workers in financial services in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1971 as the Scottish Equitable Staff Association, an internal staff association at Scottish Equitable. Scottish Equitable was renamed Aegon UK in 2010, and the union changed its name to "Aegis", affiliating to the Trades Union Congress in the same year.Chelmsford TUC, "A Snapshot of Trade Union Events " By 2012, some Aegon staff had been outsourced, and the union began also recruiting those workers.

In May 1926 a general strike was called by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an attempt to force the government to do something to prevent wage cuts and ameliorate worsening conditions for British coal miners. Some 2.5 million workers struck from 3 to 12 May, paralysing transport and industry.Butt, p. 391 Davidson sought to play a conciliatory role; the historian G. I. T. Machin calls his intervention "probably the most celebrated actions of his twenty-five years as Archbishop of Canterbury".

That year he became a work-place trades union representative. He was involved with the anti-war Independent Social Democratic Party ("Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / USPD), and in 1921, as the USPD broke up, he was one of many former members who joined the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. However, he lost his job with Siemens in 1923 because of his involvement in that year's "August strike". He then took a job with the BVG (Berlin bus and tram operator).

He concluded his studies in 1924 and received his doctorate from Budapest University in 1925. By this time it seems that he was devoting more time to political activity. In 1926 he was arrested and accused of having "insulted the Minister for Justice" in an article he had written. On a second occasion, he was arrested for "inciting class hatred" in a lecture delivered to members of the Metal Workers' Trades Union, and accused of "insulting the national honour" in another article.

In 1971, Slater was elected as General Secretary of the MNAOA. This led him to greater international prominence, serving with the International Transport Workers' Federation and attended conferences of the International Labour Organization. In 1972, he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and he also chaired the employee side of the National Maritime Board. Slater suffered an accident in his London office in April 1974, and died as a result of the injuries he received.

Robert “Bob” Crow (13 June 196111 March 2014) was an English trade union leader who served as the General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) from 2002 until his death. He was also a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). A self- described "communist/socialist", he was a leading figure in the No to EU – Yes to Democracy campaign. Crow joined London Transport in 1977 and soon became involved in trade unionism.

For this film Iris Grusner was a co-recipient of the Arts Prize from the national Trades Union Confederation: the film opened the East Germany's first ever National Film Festival, at Karl-Marx-Stadt, later the same year. Here it won first prize from the "Film Jury of The Public". Several of her films during the 1980s returned to themes involving the lives of working women under socialism. Many of Gusner's films, including "All My Girls", are considered to be romance films.

In the 1892 general election, Woods was elected as a Lib–Lab MP for Ince. In Parliament, he agitated for the Eight Hours Bill, and in 1894 he was elected as the Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). He lost his seat at the 1895 general election, but was re- elected for Walthamstow at a by-election in 1897. However, he lost the seat in 1900 following confusion over his stance on the Second Boer War.

"Obituary: William Stott", Annual Report of the 1956 Trades Union Congress, p.312 In 1909, Stott was appointed as the full-time Assistant Secretary of the RCA, serving in this office for many years. He edited the union's Railway Service Journal for twelve years, and from 1924 headed up the union's movements department. He was secretary of two joint sectional councils: the Somerset and Dorset, and London and South West, then in 1934, became secretary of the London and North Eastern Railway council number one.

Renard had been an active trades unionist before World War II. After 1945, he became involved with the Belgian socialist trades union, the General Federation of Belgian Labour (FGTB) but refused to adapt his populist rhetoric to fit within the mainstream Belgian Socialist Party (PSB). He strongly opposed the return of Leopold III during the Royal Question (1950) and supported the Belgian general strike of 1960–61. When the strike collapsed, he participated in the formation of the Mouvement populaire wallon (MPW) party. He died in 1962.

The conflicting aims of activists affiliated with different classes and organisations barred the league from affiliation to the Trades Union Congress., Article Class Struggle and Women's Liberation To solve this conflict Macarthur founded the National Federation of Women Workers in 1906. The model for the Federation was a general labour union, "open to all women in unorganised trades or who were not admitted to their appropriate trade union." This federation pre-dated the National Union of General Workers (formed in 1921) and led by and for women.

Subsequently, he was also a prominent campaigner against apartheid in South Africa.Phil Davies, "Obituary: Ben Rubner", The Independent, 9 October 1998 In 1971, NUFTO became part of the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT), and Rubner was elected as its assistant general secretary two years later. In 1978, he was elected as general secretary, and from 1977 he served on the Central Arbitration Committee of ACAS. As leader, he campaigned for improved health and safety, such as the replacement of toxic foam furniture fillings.

The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. The Shearers' Strike Camp Site at Barcaldine has a special association with the history of the Australian Labor Party and with Trades Union in Queensland. It also has a special association with the life and work of William Hamilton and George Taylor, convicted strike leaders who went on to become prominent Labor politicians, and with many of the other participants in this event.

The union was known for never undertaking a strike. By the end of the 1960s, it had around 6,000 members,Michael Parkin, "Brushmakers bristle at proposed reforms", The Guardian, 12 May 1969 and in 1971 it added "and General Workers" to its name. Two years later, it was expelled from the TUC for registering with the government, in defiance of the congress' policy, but it was permitted to rejoin the following year. In 1983, the union merged into the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union.

"The Distributive Workers: union's new officials", Manchester Guardian, 28 December 1935 In 1947, NUDAW merged with the Shop Assistants' Union to form the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), and Burrows was appointed joint assistant general secretary, with Joe Hiscock."Unions amalgamated: NUDAW and the Shop Assistants", Manchester Guardian, 27 June 1946 Later that year, general secretary Joseph Hallsworth stood down, and Burrows became acting general secretary, also taking Hallsworth's place on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He retired in 1949.

The British government encouraged the establishment of a national trade union center as it sought to avoid the kind of labor struggles that had accompanied the industrial revolution in Europe and North America. On September 8, 1945 the Gold Coast Trades Union Congress (TUC) was founded with an initial membership of 6,030 and fourteen affiliates at the offices of the Railway African Employees Union in Sekondi. It was largely an appendage of the ruling Convention People's Party (CPP).FES Trade Union Reports: The Case of Ghana.

Macdonald was elected to the first parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1871, and he served as chairman of the committee in 1872 and 1873. He lobbied the Liberal government over changes relating to trade union activities in the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1871, and the Mines Regulation Act of 1872. He later sat on the Royal Commission on trade unions which reported in 1875, issuing a minority report calling for wider reform of labour laws than the main report had proposed.

He was Chairman of the East Midlands Conservative Members and Candidates Committee and the Area Conservative Political Centre. Lewis was noted for his remembrance speeches. In February 1984 he spoke in the Commons against the ban on Trades Union representation at GCHQ, urging the government to show more recognition of the needs of workers for representation, and joined former prime minister Edward Heath in abstaining on the vote. Lewis was an active Churchman, and served as Chairman of a Standing Committee of the World Council of Churches.

By the time she left school she had been identified as a political non-conformist and a university level education was therefore not available to her. Instead she trained for work in the catering sector. Rügen was a major holiday destination and she was able to work as a waitress and selling ice cream with the holiday service of the National Trades Union Federation. She resisted pressure to study for further qualifications since this would have necessitated becoming a member of the ruling SED (party).

78, 84 whereupon he became an agent for the merged Nottinghamshire Miners' Federated Union (NMFU). In 1943, Bayliss was chosen as one of the Trades Union Congress' two representatives to the American Federation of Labour. Bayliss was elected to Nottinghamshire County Council, becoming an alderman, and serving as its chairman from 1945. In 1946, he was elected as President of the Nottinghamshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, successor of the NMFU; he served until 1952, when he retired and joined the National Coal Board.

Arnaud Focraud (July 3, 2020), Les multiples vies de Jean Castex, nouveau Premier ministre d'Emmanuel Macron Le Journal du Dimanche. they have four daughters. A fluent Catalan speaker, Castex is regarded a defender of the Catalan identity in Southern France and other regional sensibilities. He is also friends with the ex-trades union leader Jean-Claude Mailly and the physician Patrick Pelloux, a former columnist at Charlie Hebdo.Arnaud Focraud (July 3, 2020), Les multiples vies de Jean Castex, nouveau Premier ministre d'Emmanuel Macron Le Journal du Dimanche.

Although Hill had previously remarked that "anything savouring of trade unionism is nausea to the local government officer", NALGO sought a certificate from the Registrar of Friendly Societies confirming its status as a trade union in 1920. Discussion on affiliation to the Trades Union Congress began as early as 1921, however, it would take until 1964 to be agreed. It amalgamated with various smaller unions including the National Association of Poor Law Officers in 1930. Membership continued to grow rapidly, reaching some 100,000 by 1940.

Turner in 2016 Steve Turner (born 24 November 1962) is Assistant General Secretary (AGS) of Britain and Ireland's largest trade union, Unite the Union. He is responsible for the union's manufacturing sector, along with its retired members and Unite's community membership. Turner represents Unite on the Trades Union Congress Executive Committee and General Council and on the Executive and Management Committees of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF). Turner is a member of the Labour Party and National Chair of the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity.

Ng has two notable elder brothers. The older of the two, Ng Chee Khern, was the Chief of Air Force from 2006–2009 and was the Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office (Singapore) from 2015 to 2020. The younger of his two elder brothers, Ng Chee Meng, served as the Chief of Air Force from 2009–2013 and the Chief of Defence Force from 2013–2015 and currently serving as the Secretary-General of National Trades Union Congress. Ng is married to Valerie Low.

Kay Carberry, (born 19 October 1950) is the former Assistant General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). Carberry studied at the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq in Malta, then at the University of Sussex. She worked as a teacher for three years, and became active in the National Union of Teachers (NUT), where she took employment as a researcher. She began working for the TUC in 1978,"CARBERRY, Kay", Who's Who and in 1988 was appointed as the first head of its Equal Rights Department.

Stegmann's first major assignment was the Aarhus housing development in Stadion Allé (1930). The same year a competition was launched for a university in Aarhus. Stegmann, who had studied contemporary university architecture while travelling in Europe, submitted a proposal together with Kay Fisker and his younger colleague C. F. Møller. Inspired by Hannes Meyer's trades union college in Bernau near Berlin, it consisted of a structure divided into several small departments, carefully adapted to the building site with the assistance of the landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen.

Thomas Foran (died 18 March 1951) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1923 to 1936, and from 1938 to 1948. He was a member of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1921. He was first elected to the Free State Seanad at a by-election on 28 November 1923 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas MacPartlin.

While contributing to the Swedish Trades Union Press, Enderle was also writing for the Rote Revue published in Zürich. Although the Enderles had joined the SAPD from a breakaway section of the Communist Party, most of its members had come originally from the SPD. By November 1944 the end of the war was in sight, and it was evident that Germany would undergo some sort of new beginning. The exiled SAPD in Stockholm, like its counterpart in London, now reunited itself with the SPD.

This experience increased support for the new Independent Labour Party (ILP), with which Hobson had some sympathy, although he never joined, instead retaining membership of the Liberal group on the council. Hobson also attended the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and he was elected to serve on its Parliamentary Committee in 1900 and 1901. During the 1890s, Hobson became wealthier, setting up first a greengrocers' shop, then a brick making firm, and finally dealing in property. However, his business partner, Warrington Slater, was declared bankrupt in 1903.

Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.XIII, p.2 During the early 1930s, ASLEF's general secretary, John Bromley, suffered from increasingly poor health, and Squance frequently deputised for him. As such, when Bromley retired in 1936, Squance was the natural choice as his successor.Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.XIII, p.55 He also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1936, until his retirement in 1939. As general secretary, Squance was known as an outspoken anti-fascist, close to the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Despite being based in London, he twice stood for Parliament in Dundee as an ILP candidate, failing to win a seat. He also spent some time on the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and in 1893 successfully proposed an amendment requiring it to support only those Labour candidates who accepted the principle of collective ownership.D. E. Martin, "Curran, Peter Francis (1860–1910)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography In 1898, MacDonald organised merger talks between the SDF and ILP, but these proved unsuccessful, the ILP withdrawing.

While it tended to dominate the activities of the federation, the English Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers was of similar size. However, in 1971, the Operative Lace Makers merged into the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers. The Scottish union decided to remain an independent union, dissolving the federation and affiliating with the General Federation of Trade Unions and the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). It was one of the last two Scottish industrial unions affiliated to the STUC, alongside the Scottish Carpet Workers' Union.

Terry Pattinson, "Obituary: Sam McCluskie", The Independent, 18 September 1995 During this time, he successfully negotiated with the British Shipping Federation to retain a closed shop.Jonathan S. Kitchen, The Employment of Merchant Seamen, p.307 He also convinced the Trades Union Congress to support the union's policy to refuse to dump nuclear waste at sea, and donated union funds to support the UK miners' strike of 1984-5. In 1986, the union's rules compelled Slater to stand down, and he instead became President of the NUS.

A settlement was eventually reached with the Trades Union Congress whereby the proposals were dropped. Although the paper itself never resulted in legislation, it was influential in the drafting of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 ("TULRA"). TULRA, which subsequently became the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, had repealed Robert Carr's controversial Industrial Relations Act 1971. The white paper's requirement that strike action could only take place after a trade union ballot would later become a key component of TULRA.

Wilson's government in 1969 proposed a series of reforms to the legal basis for industrial relations (labour law) in the UK, which were outlined in a White Paper entitled "In Place of Strife", which proposed to give trade unions statutory rights, but also to limit their power. The White Paper was championed by Wilson and Barbara Castle. The proposals however faced stiff opposition from the Trades Union Congress, and some key cabinet ministers such as James Callaghan. The opponents won the day and the proposals were shelved.

It soon became clear that some sort of contest was likely. The Unionist Labour Party invited Lambeth Borough Councillor W. A. Perkins to contest the seat on its behalf, and the London Trades Union Protest Committee selected Joe Terrett to stand on a platform of opposition to the recently introduced drink orders introduced on liquor traffic by the Central Control Board. Terrett promptly began his campaign with literature carrying slogans such as "Smash the control board. No more government by secretly- appointed non-representative bodies".

In association with other football bodies, the PFA are the managing agents for the "Football Scholarship Programme" and the "Football in the Community Programme". It is a member of the Institute of Professional Sport and FIFPro – the confederation of international football players' unions – as well as the Trades Union Congress. Its current chief executive is Gordon Taylor, a former player with Blackburn Rovers. Many of the key personnel within the PFA are also ex-professionals, including Deputy Chief Executives John Bramhall and Bobby Barnes.

Betts was born on 13 January 1950 in Sheffield. He was state educated at the Longley School in Sheffield, King Edward VII School, Sheffield and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a BA in Economics and Politics. He joined the Labour Party in 1969 and joined the Trades Union Congress in 1971 as an economist. In 1973 he was appointed as an economist with Derbyshire County Council, and moved to the South Yorkshire County Council in 1974 where he was an Economist until 1986.

George Henry Bagnall (21 May 18831939 England and Wales Register – 9 March 1964) was a British trade unionist. Born in Pendleton near Salford, Bagnall worked as a coal miner for seven years before becoming a dyer in the textile industry.Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1964 Trades Union Congress, p.366 He joined the Amalgamated Society of Dyers, Finishers and Kindred Trades, serving as General Secretary from 1933 to 1936, negotiating the merger which formed the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers.