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	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| The role of the unions: Ask TUC general secretary
		TUC general secretary Brendan Barber answered your questions from the annual conference in Brighton.
		In his first speech to congress since becoming TUC general secretary, Mr Barber said unions had a responsibility to tell the government when it had "got it wrong".
		The TUC is not itself affiliated to the Labour Party - we don't fund the Labour Party, we're not involved in their internal affairs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/3090636.stm (1986 words)

	General Secretary of the TUC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 United Kingdom.
		The Secretary is responsible for the effective operation of the TUC and for leading implementation of policies set by the annual Congress and the organisation's General Council.
		Secretaries of the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_TUC (157 words)

	Secretary
		Chief Secretary to the Treasury The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a junior position in the Chancellor of the Excheq...
		General Secretary of the TUC The General Secretary of the TUC is the chief permanent officer of the United Kingdom.
		One of the present-day secretaries, the Parliamentary Secretary to...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/secretary.html (1819 words)

	General Secretary Of The Tuc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: âFor too long further education has been the poorest sibling in the education sector, despite training millions of...
		TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "European rules to outlaw age discrimination are welcome.
		At the press conference, the Deputy Secretary General of TUC (Administration), Mr.
	www.wikiverse.org /general-secretary-of-the-tuc (275 words)

	General News of Friday, 9 July 2004
		Tamale, July 09, GNA - Mr Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) declared in Tamale on Friday that the Union's existence is assured because "it is an entrenched provision in the Constitution".
		The TUC Secretary-General who was addressing the closing session of a two-day meeting of the Northern Region Council of Labour, said it was now the basic right of every worker to decide to belong to any sister union.
		Mr Kofi Asamoah, Deputy Secretary General in Charge of Operations, noted that the freedom of belonging to different unions should be viewed against the background that "not all freedoms are healthy for workers' progress".
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=61391 (390 words)

	Britain: The TUC prepares a rescue mission for Blair
		TUC general secretary Brendan Barber’s opening address was a plea for greater cooperation between the government and the unions, rather than a threat of growing conflict.
		In stark contrast to the apocalyptic warnings of the right-wing press, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, Digby Jones, spoke warmly of the unions’ record in his invited address to the TUC conference.
		Though their comments are more generally hostile to the government, what characterises the stand of what the media has dubbed the “angry brigade” is their unswerving loyalty to Labour and to the TUC bureaucracy of which they form an integral part.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/sep2003/tuc-s18.shtml (1600 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Key players in the union movement
		He was elected as T&G general secretary in 2003 and immediately issued a call to his colleagues to end union in-fighting and build a stronger force for economic change.
		Keates held a number of elected roles within the NASUWT including local negotiating secretary for Birmingham and National Executive Member for the West Midlands, prior to joining the staff of the Union in 1998 when she was appointed an assistant general secretary with responsibility for co-ordinating the development and implementation of union policy.
		He rose to be London area secretary of the GMB and eventually ran for the job of general secretary in the contest that saw Curran elected.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4197262.stm (1516 words)

	John Monks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		John Monks, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, has helped lead the TUC in boldly redefining itself as a movement of skills developers.
		These initiatives have cast the TUC as a movement engaged in their country's economic renewal, one that is firmly committed to the productivity, competitiveness and stability of unionized employers, and to the needs and aspirations of individual union members.
		One thing I leave the TUC with regrets about is that I have not been able to convince the General Council of the TUC that we should have one highly visible Internet-based information service to bring people halfway towards the union movement.
	www.newecon.org /Monks1-03.html (7642 words)

	PCS & the TUC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		PCS is a member union of the TUC - indeed we are the sixth largest among TUC affiliated unions.
		Each year the TUC holds a conference where policy is decided, elections are held to various TUC committees and guest speakers are heard from government, business, European bodies and many others.
		This is the body that oversees the work of the TUC between its conferences.
	www.pcs.org.uk /print_friendly.asp?NodeID=300918&Poll=&Date= (390 words)

	Brendan Barber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brendan Barber (born 3 April 1951) has been the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) since June 2003.
		In 1975 he got his first job at the TUC as a policy officer.
		In 1987 he became head of the Organisation and Industrial Relations Department and in 1993 he became Deputy General Secretary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brendon_Barber (116 words)

	BECTU response to TUC Strategic Review: Facing the Future
		We readily acknowledge that the TUC has in recent years begun to pay closer and more specific attention to this growing sector of the workforce — for whom, trade union organisation is difficult and employment rights often lacking.
		Given the ongoing crisis in occupational pensions and the continuing inadequacy of state pensions, we believe there could be a greater role for the TUC as a centre or clearing house of pensions expertise for affiliates to draw on in negotiating and campaigning on pensions issues.
		At a policy level, we are clear that the TUC has a comprehensive and sophisticated awareness of current pensions issues, as well as practical activity in the stakeholder area.
	www.bectu.org.uk /policy/pol076.html (762 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Brendan Barber becomes TUC General Secretary Elect
		He has been one of the great TUC general secretaries, constantly looking to take trade unionism forward, winning esteem not only throughout the trade union movement, but in every quarter of British life.
		Over the next eight years Brendan dealt with the TUC media relations at a time when union stories often dominated the news agenda, from the Stockport Messenger dispute of 1982, to the Miners Strike of 1984-85 and the Wapping Dispute.
		He was also closely involved in international stories relating to the TUC’s dealings with unions in places from Poland and the rise of Solidarity, to South Africa where the trade unions played a prominent part in the overthrow of apartheid.
	www.tuc.org.uk /the_tuc/tuc-6007-f0.cfm (2077 words)

	TUC: City Too Secretive - WhichOption
		In its voluntary survey of how organisations voted in key annual general meetings (AGMs), only 26 gave information to the union, something the TUC claims is damaging trust in the pensions industry.
		Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, said he had always been sceptical about how forthcoming fund managers would be.
		Although companies supplying the TUC with voting information have generally risen since the union started collecting the data three years ago, it has fallen from the high of 28 companies in 2005.
	www.whichoption.com /tuc-city-too-secretive.html (228 words)

	Guardian \| TUC leader hints at euro 'timetable'
		John Monks, the general secretary of the TUC, has fuelled speculation that there is a Whitehall "timetable" for entry, encompassing the necessary legislation, the wording of the referendum question and the campaign itself.
		The TUC leader was quick to add that he had no "inside knowledge", but his comments add to widespread Whitehall rumours that the government's preferred date for a referendum is autumn 2003.
		Most of the big trade unions are strongly in favour of the single currency, although Bill Morris, of the Transport and General Workers' Union and a close confidant of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, is more cautious.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4399833-110369,00.html (379 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - TUC WANTS MORE BANK HOLIDAYS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The TUC is campaigning for three extra bank holidays a year - including one to break up the 16-week slog between August Bank Holiday and Christmas.
		Four out of 10 questioned for a TUC poll picked the start of the school half term holiday.
		TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "Autumn doesn't have to be such a slog.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/tm_objectid=14794560&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=tuc-wants-more-bank-holidays-name_page.html (201 words)

	New Statesman: Brothers in arms. - Review - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It comes from unpublished (because potentially libellous) notes of interviews with Vic Feather, the then TUC general secretary, by Eric Silver of the Guardian, from the TUC's archives buried in academia and, most importantly, from Wilson's own hand in minutes of meetings with union bosses specially released by the Public Records Office.
		The TUC was the civil service that delivered it, although generations of Congress House officials have mystifyingly preferred the term "general staff", with its unpleasant military connotations.
		This is strictly a history of the TUC as an institution, which limits any appraisal of the union leaders who made the policy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4505_129/ai_65911571 (834 words)

	General News of Thursday, 28 April 2005
		It was on the theme: "Creating and Sustaining a Safety Culture." In Ghana members of the Building and Wood Workers Union converged at the TUC Hall to commemorate the Day lighting candles, singing dirges and praying for the departed.
		Mr Pius Quainoo, Coordinating Committee Secretary of the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW), called on the Government and employers to integrate sustainable development into Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) for workers and to promote all forms of decent work and welfare.
		Mr Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, General Secretary of the TUC, said some of the injuries and health issues occurred out of ignorance and the absence of safety gadgets.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=80338 (520 words)

	House of Commons - Deregulation - Third Report
		The Committee would like to know whether requirements exist for all unions affiliated to the TUC to notify their members of increases in subscriptions, and what efforts are made to ensure that all union members are notified.
		Thus the TUC maintains that there is no need for any notification to members about the continued deduction of their union subscriptions.
		One suggestion that was made in the course of the consultation process was that the requirement for re-authorisations every three years prevented workers continuing to pay union subscriptions unwittingly since they would regularly be put in a position of deciding whether they wanted to continue paying their union subscriptions by check off or at all.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmdereg/601iii/de0307.htm (1499 words)

	Bulletin - University of Sussex Newsletter TUC General Secretary visits Sussex Friday 14 September (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		John Monks, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), took time out from the organisation's annual conference at the Brighton Centre this week to visit the Career Development and Employment Centre on campus.
		A new TUC report entitled 'Reaching the Missing Millions' concludes that, despite recent growth in union membership, young people and graduates are less likely than other groups of employees to join unions.
		The TUC is made up of 74 unions, with a combined membership of nearly 7 million workers.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /press_office/bulletin/14sep01/article3.shtml (218 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British organisation that represents the nations's trade unions.
		The TUC's decision making body is the annual Congress which takes place in September.
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /TUC (378 words)

	Business Unlimited \| Business latest \| Interview: Brendan Barber, general-secretary of the TUC
		Brendan Barber joined the TUC, according to a mischievous member of the organisation's general council, because he found his old job as researcher for the ceramics, glass and mineral products industry training board too exciting.
		The head of the trade union movement can chuckle at the joke after a week in which he was confusingly presented as a nutcase dragging Britain back to a strike-ridden anarchy of the 1970s and, simultaneously, a militant moderate holding back the hordes trying to storm the New Labour barricades.
		For Barber, the glass is at least half full rather than half empty, and he feels the TUC should praise advances - whether better enforcement of the minimum wage or flexible working - instead of concentrating on disagreements.
	www.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,3604,1036722,00.html (1817 words)

	Politics \| Irritation at Monks naming successor
		John Monks is at risk of a backlash after his unexpected announcement that he intended to step down as general secretary of the TUC led to suggestions he was attempting to "shoo-in" his deputy, Brendan Barber.
		Although none would criticise Mr Monks in public, the private concern underlined uneasiness over his decision to swap Congress House, the TUC HQ, for Brussels by putting his name forward next year to be elected general secretary of the European TUC.
		One official suggested the TUC should use the opportunity to jump a generation and pick its first woman leader, and identified Frances O'Grady, the TUC's head of organisation, as a possible candidate.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4383323-107979,00.html (569 words)

	UNI : 3rd Quadrennial Conference of the Communication Workers Union of TUC (Ghana)
		The 3rd Quadrennial Conference of CWU of TUC (Ghana) was held from 14 to 15 June 2004 in Kumasi, the second town of the country, located at approximately 300 km from Accra.
		Several Authorities and union leaders, particularly the General Manager of the Post office, the General Secretary of TUC (Ghana) took part in the opening ceremony which took place on 14 June 2004 in the Great Hall of the Kwame N'Krumah University.
		There were, among others, the President of GTUC, the President of the women of GTUC, the General Secretary of the Union of Teachers (TEWU), the General Manager of Ghana Telecom.
	www.union-network.org /uniafrican.nsf/0/6B3B4605311DC74EC1256ECA00490CE4?OpenDocument (288 words)

	Socialism Today - Blair's last TUC
		THE 2006 TUC conference was notable for the final speech by Tony Blair to the ‘parliament’ of the labour movement.
		Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, and the majority of the General Council want the TUC to continue to play the role of would-be ‘partners’ with the bosses.
		At the TUC it was only the left leaders who gave any voice to demands from the working class for the unions to fight back.
	www.socialismtoday.org /104/tuc.html (1314 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Deputy General Secretary speech to TUC Disability Conference 2003
		The TUC has proposed ways to deal with this, and has welcomed several of the Government’s initiatives to reform the way the benefits system works.
		As you know, the TUC carried out an equality audit earlier this year, that was reported to Congress.
		I am delighted to tell you that the TUC has looked at this, and has drawn up some advice for unions on how to comply with the new regulations, and on how to build on the law as a minimum standard.
	www.tuc.org.uk /equality/tuc-7423-f0.cfm (1575 words)

	New Statesman - Brothers in arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The TUC was the civil service that delivered it, although generations of Congress House officials have mystifyingly preferred the term "general staff", with its unpleasant military connotations.
		As with the real Civil Service, with whom they enjoy pay parity, the TUC civil servants were not always convinced of their masters' strategy, and did not strive officiously to implement it.
		This is strictly a history of the TUC as an institution, which limits any appraisal of the union leaders who made the policy.
	www.newstatesman.com /200009250053 (837 words)

	Unions are given seats at the centre of Government
		The full scale of the comeback was revealed by John Monks, the general secretary of the TUC, in an interview with The Telegraph on the eve of the Trades Union Congress, which opens in Brighton today.
		Mr Monks said the TUC had been brought "in from the cold" and that the "years of icy relationships and war have passed".
		John Edmonds, the GMB general secretary, went one step further last night by calling for formal "tripartite" discussions between Government, employers and unions on training and employment rights.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/09/08/ntuc08.html (507 words)

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