The Manchester Trades Union Council brings together trade union branches in Manchester in England. Efforts to bring trade unionists together across Manchester...
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A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent...
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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 Bristol Trades Council is a trades council representing workers in Bristol in England. The first attempt to form a trades council in Bristol was in...
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The London Trades Council (1952) brought together trade unions representing workers in London, in England. The council was formed on the initiative of...
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Association of Trades (Union) Councils Leading figures in the London trade union movement convened occasional meetings of the "Metropolitan Trades Delegates"...
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Peter Shorrocks (category Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress)
the Manchester and Salford Trades Council (MSTC), and he supported W. H. Wood in calling the first Trades Union Congress (TUC), held in Manchester in 1868...
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Local branches may also affiliate to a local trades council. In the United States and Canada, local unions are usually numbered (e.g. CWA Local 2101 in...
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Herbert Eastwood (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
Britain, and in 1948 he was additionally elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, although he was removed from that office in 1949 for...
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Alf Roberts (trade unionist) (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Roberts negotiated a merger between the NUVB and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU); as...
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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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Jack Eccles (trade unionist) (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
of Manchester City Council. In 1966, he became the Lancashire regional secretary of the union. In 1973, Eccles joined the council of the Trades Union Congress...
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June 2016. "#NoGo: solidarity with the Go NW bus strike". Manchester Trades Union Council. Retrieved 15 August 2022. National Express Coach Handbook...
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in protest against cuts, Unite supported a successful motion at the Trades Union Congress in 2012 to consider holding a general strike. In 2013, leaked...
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Fred Bostock (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
Federation. In September 1947, Bostock was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and in December, he was elected as general secretary...
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Joe Williams (trade unionist) (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
to Manchester City Council in 1904 as the Labour Representation Committee candidate for Openshaw, with the backing of Manchester and Salford Trades Council...
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Albert Williams (trade unionist) (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
distance himself from allegations that CPGB members in the Electrical Trades Union had engaged in ballot rigging. He remained on the executive of the AUBTW...
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John Brown (trade unionist) (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
City Council. Pugh retired at the end of 1935, and Brown was chosen as his replacement. He was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress...
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William Henry Wood (category General secretaries of the Trades Union Congress)
the first Secretary of the Manchester Trades Council. A keen trade unionist, Wood played a prominent role in two national union conferences: in Sheffield...
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ISBNÂ 978-1-913295-53-0. "#NoGo: solidarity with the Go NW bus strike". Manchester Trades Union Council. Retrieved 15 August 2022. "Select Bus Services - Tickets available...
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Possibly the first such union was the General Union of Trades, also known as the Philanthropic Society, founded in 1818 in Manchester. The latter name was...
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Herbert Skinner (trade unionist) (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
later in Manchester. Devon, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 1901 England Census 1871 England Census Trades Union Congress,...
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Mary Quaile (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
became part of Manchester Trades Council, and Quaile became the National Woman Officer of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union, which later...
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Barbara Switzer (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
Council of the Trades Union Congress, and from 1995 she additionally served as president of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions....
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The EPU accounted for trades but did not transfer money until the end of the month. It changed the landscape from bilateral trades of necessity (trading...
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Dick Pickering (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
Manchester branch. 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...
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Entertainment Unions International Federation of Actors Irish Congress of Trade Unions SAG-AFTRA Scottish Trades Union Congress Trades Union Congress "Annual...
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Matthew Arrandale (category Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress)
soon rose to prominence, being elected as president of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council three years later, and as the Machine Workers' part-time...
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Bradford Labour Union merged into the new body. Ashraf, Mary (1972). Bradford Trades Council: 1872-1972. Bradford: Bradford Trades Council. Crick, Martin...
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Jimmy Rowan (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
Electrical Trades Union (ETU) in 1897, and was elected as its Salford branch secretary in 1899. Rowan was a delegate to the Manchester and Salford Trades Council...
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