The president of the Trades Union Congress is a prominent but largely honorary position in British trade unionism. Initially, the post of president was...
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions that collectively represent most unionised workers in England...
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The General Secretary of the TUC is the chief permanent officer of the Trades Union Congress, and a major figurehead in the trade union movement in the...
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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...
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The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is the national trade union centre in Scotland. With 40 affiliated unions as of 2020, the STUC represents over...
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The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), also known as the Singapore National Trades Union Congress (SNTUC) internationally, is the sole national trade...
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Maria Exall (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
August 1960) was the President of the Trades Union Congress for 2022–23, being appointed for her work in the Communication Workers Union. Maria Exall has...
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046167; 101.588556 The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC; Malay: Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia), is a national trade union centre in Malaysia...
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Mark Serwotka (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the largest trade union representing British civil servants. He was President of the Trades Union Congress...
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J. H. Thomas (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
Before the 1926 General Strike the Trades Union Congress asked Thomas to negotiate with Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Government, but the talks were...
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David Shackleton (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
period. Shackleton became chairman of the Trades Union Congress in 1906, maintaining his powerful position in the trade union movement. In 1910, Winston Churchill...
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The Ghana Trades Union Congress is a national centre that unites various workers' organizations in Ghana. The organization was established in 1945. The...
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Matt Wrack (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
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...
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Jimmy Knapp (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
to 2001, and was President of the Trades Union Congress in 1994. Knapp was born into a railway family in Hurlford, Ayrshire one of two boys. He was educated...
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Claude Bartlett (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and in 1960, he became President of the Trades Union Congress, the first holder of that post in many years...
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Ben Tillett (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
seat on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress until 1932. By the turn of the 20th Century a blind workforce was now established in the labour...
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Marie Patterson (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
Patterson was the President of the Trades Union Congress, and she also filled the post in 1977, following the death of Danny McGarvey. During the 1960s, she...
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Clive Jenkins (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
trade union leader. "Organising the middle classes", his stated recreation in Who's Who, sums up both his sense of humour and his achievements in the British...
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Rodney Bickerstaffe (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
of the National Union of Public Employees (1982–1993) and UNISON (1996–2001), Britain's largest trade union at the time. He later became president of...
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Sue Ferns (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
2021, Ferns was elected as President of the Trades Union Congress, in which role she focused on campaigning to close the gender pay gap and pensions...
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The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) is a trade union representing about 100,000 painters, glaziers, wall coverers, flooring installers...
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Ernest Bevin (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
a last resort. During the late 1930s, for instance, Bevin helped to instigate a successful campaign by the Trades Union Congress to extend paid holidays...
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Federation of Entertainment Unions International Federation of Actors Irish Congress of Trade Unions SAG-AFTRA Scottish Trades Union Congress Trades Union Congress...
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Gloria Mills (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
She was elected as President of the Trades Union Congress from 2005 to 2006. Mills has been active with the European Trade Union Confederation, and was...
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Alec Smith (trade unionist) (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
National Officer of the GMB, and served a term as President of the Trades Union Congress. He died in 2021. "Legislation". Official Journal of the European Communities...
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Samuel Shaftoe (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
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...
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Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
Christopher is also trustee of the Trades Union Unit Trust Charitable Trust and since 1998 of the Douglas Houghton Memorial Fund. In the 1984 New Year Honours...
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Amalgamated Union of File Trades, Ulster Transport and Allied Operatives Union 1965: Stoke Prior Salt Makers', Mechanics' and General Labourers' Union 1966: HM...
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miners Joseph Crawford - President of the Trades Union Congress and General Secretary of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers...
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Ada Maddocks (category Presidents of the Trades Union Congress)
awarded an OBE in 1982, and served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1990, actively supporting the ambulance workers' strike. She retired...
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