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	Trades Union Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trade Unions Congress (TUC), founder of the labour party, is a British organisation that represents the UK's trade unions.
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary, currently Brendan Barber.
		It was no coincidence, therefore, that the city became one of the main centres for trade union organisation and agitation in the UK.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trades_Union_Congress (406 words)

	Encyclopedia: Trades Union Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 Ceramic and Allied Trades Union was created in the early 19th century to protect workers from dangerous conditions of their field.
		The Transport and General Workers Union, also known as the TGWU and the TandG, is one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it is known as the Amalgamated TGWU - with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trades-Union-Congress (1579 words)

	Trade Union Congress
		At the third Trade Union Congress in London in 1871 a Parliamentary Committee was appointed.
		On 27th February 1900, the Trade Union Congress and representatives of all the socialist groups in Britain (the Independent Labour Party, the Social Democratic Federation and the Fabian Society,) met at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London.
		In all branches of industry Trades Unions were formed with the outspoken intention of protecting the single workingman against the tyranny and neglect of the bourgeoisie.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUtuc.htm (1065 words)

	Scottish Trades Union Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is the co-ordinating body of trade unions in Scotland.
		It is a separate organisation from the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC).
		This article related to a trade or labor union is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Trades_Union_Congress (108 words)

	Socialism Today - Trades Union Congress 2002
		In general, however, the TUC congress came and went with little reflection of the harsh realities of life for Britain’s workers in the hall or on the agenda.
		Ironically this was John Monks’ final congress before he progresses up the ladder of the international trade union bureaucracy, and it was a congress that saw his project in tatters.
		The trade unions are not like the Labour Party: whilst their leaders may have undergone a political process in parallel to New Labour, their members have not drifted away as New Labour’s members have, reflecting an understanding of the need for collective organisation in the workplace.
	www.socialismtoday.org /69/TUC.html (1543 words)

	Trades Union Congress
		The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British organisation that represents the nations's trade unions.
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary.
		Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) [1]
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/tr/trades_union_congress.html (293 words)

	Trades Union Congress
		The strike was called by the Trades Union Congress in response to a national lockout of coal-miners, but the government was able to keep most services running and the TUC capitulated after nine days.
		Voluntary organization of trade unions, founded in the UK in 1868, in which delegates of affiliated unions meet annually to consider matters affecting their members.
		30% of the employees in the UK belong to trade unions (25% in the private sector, and 60% in the public sector), compared to 14% in the USA and 8% in France.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013283.html (196 words)

	Trades Union Congress
		Contains copies of Trades Union Congress Steel Committee minutes and circulars on various issues such as the delegate conference, TUC unemployed workers centres, Manpower Services Commission skill centres, privatisation, sick pay, the Trade Union Bill, and the miners; strike and Government Communications Headquarters dispute.
		And the Trade Union Advisory Committees held at the Bridgend College of Technology and the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education (3.1982).
		Circulars from the Wales Trades Union Council to the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades regarding the Welsh annual conferences at Porthcawl and Cardiff.
	lisweb.swan.ac.uk /swcc/man/istc9.htm (813 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Trades Union Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British (The people of Great Britain) organisation that represents the UK's trade union (An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer) s.
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary (additional info and facts about General Secretary).
		The UK Association of Organised Trades, founded in Sheffield (A steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry), South Yorkshire (A metropolitan county in northern England), in 1866, was the forerunner of the (TUC).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trades_union_congress.htm (782 words)

	London: Trades Union Congress
		From the post World War 1 period the growing secretariat of the TUC required a wider subject range of material to support its role in tripartite policy-making; the TUC role during world war 2 enhanced this demand.
		The core subject areas are publications relating to work, political and trade union organisation and education, but generally any material relating to the social and economic lives of working people would have been retained.
		Government publications acquired by the TUC since 1995 continue to be deposited annually in the library collections, but their numbers are now very limited.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /colldesc/coll663.html (357 words)

	London Metropolitan University » Trades Union Congress Library Collections: General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The TUC Library is the major research library for the study of all aspects of trade unions and collective bargaining with both historical and contemporary coverage.
		The TUC Library was established in 1922 and was based on the integrated collections of the TUC Parliamentary Committee, the Labour Party Information Bureau, and the Womens Trade Union League.
		TUC staff and other trade union staff and officials will be given access, as will other external users who are pursuing research interests which cannot easily be met elsewhere.
	www.londonmet.ac.uk /services/sas/library-services/tuc/geninfo.cfm (806 words)

	Trades Union Congress (TUC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The TUC is anxious that young people are effectively introduced to the world of work and understand the points of view being expressed by employees through their Trade Unions.
		The TUC is also concerned to increase young people's understanding of trade unionism, so they are aware of what trade unions do and how they are organised....The TUC wants to see young people properly educated about trade unions.....not left to pick up their knowledge from the press and TV.
		The TUC is sponsoring a regional centre, at Wooley Hall near Barnsley, as the SCIP Trade Union Centre.
	sol.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk /pages/Ultralab/EIA/TradesUnionCongressTUC.html (1996 words)

	Trades Union Congress -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Although it is the sole national trade union, three other related bodies also exist: the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Wales Trade Union Council, and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (including the Northern Ireland Committee).
		The AITUC was formed by the Indian National Congress (the central organ of the independence movement) in 1920 to represent India at the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations.
		Its principal organizers were the British Trades Union Congress, the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the All-Union Central Congress of Trade Unions.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073141 (772 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary, which is currently Brendon Barber.
		The UK Association of Organised Trades, founded in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1866, was the forerunner of the (TUC).
		On the character and tasks of the trade union in socialist society: Speech at the Fifth Congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, December 14, 1971
	www.unipedia.info /TUC.html (659 words)

	CASBAH: Trades Union Congress Registry Files (1920 - 1960)
		Administrative/Biographical history: The TUC was formed in Manchester in 1868 as a voluntary association of trade unions.
		Correspondence relating to trade unions includes the model rules for the guidance of colonial organisations prepared by the TUC, copies of Trade Union News for Overseas, which were published by the TUC Press Department, and papers of the TUC Colonial Advisory Committee, 1937-60.
		Also included are records relating to education in Britain of 'colonial' trade unionists, 'colonial' students in the UK, as well as women's involvement in trade unions and the colonial office.
	www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/57/MRCA00007.htm (940 words)

	Trades Union Congress Regional, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Scottish Trade Union Review Magazine for trade unionists in Scotland published with the support of the General Council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
		Harlow Trades Union Council Furthers the interests of the trade union movement in the Harlow (Essex, England) area.
		Union branches are represented on this body and discuss matters of mutual interest.
	www.wacofdn.org /d2RjXzY5NjE3.aspx (400 words)

	Trades Union Congress : Trade Unionism, Trades Union Congress, Organisation, predominantly 1920-60
		Correspondents include: Cyril Stone regarding painting of Trades Union Congress Brighton Congress; Mrs Ruth Dalton and Arts Council regarding Josef Herman's `South Wales'; Tom Driberg regarding a painting of the departure of the Tolpuddle Martyrs by Kenelm Cox and letters from Cox; correspondence regarding presentation by Labour Party of painting of London Airport.
		Correspondence in reply to Trades Union Congress circular enquiring whether trade unions wished to be covered by proposed legislation whereby Friendly Society benefit in the case of civilian war injuries would be reduced by amount paid under government scheme.
		Correspondence with National Union of Clerks regarding salaries of general officials of United Ladies Tailors' Trade Union, deemed to be outside scope of Joint Board.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/292a0000.htm (7396 words)

	Trades Union Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians [53] (http://www.ucatt.org.uk)
		Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, Swoc, and the United Steelworkers
		Trade Unions and Democratic Participation in Europe: A Scenario for the 21st Century
	www.freeglossary.com /TUC (417 words)

	Trades Union Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Congress, noting with concern the Government’s emphasis on ‘delivering’ learning, the continuing domination of performance pressures, and the conditions of learning for children and young people in schools, calls upon the General Council to warn of the dangers of narrow agendas that ignore:
		The unions' led by ATL, expressed their determination to see the Redwatch site closed, whatever the cost, and ATL will be taking the lead, with other unions, in pressing for action'.
		Maureen Foster from Trade Union Friends of Searchlight, Frances O'Grady, deputy general secretary of the TUC, and Chris Wilson, Executive member of ATL, all spoke.
	www.atl.org.uk /atl_en/news/conferences/archive_2004/TUC_2004.asp (994 words)

	The CSP - Workplace issues - Trades Union Congress
		The TUC is Britain's largest voluntary organisation and campaigns for fairness and decent standards at work, health and safety and equal opportunities and for full employment.
		The TUC is also involved in lobbying the Government direct and organises regular meetings between affiliated unions and government ministers in key areas of the public sector, including health.
		The TUC's affiliated trade unions receive a range of quality services which support trade union officers and negotiators, aid recruitment and retention of members and assist policy development and implementation.
	www.csp.org.uk /director/workplaceissues/tradesunioncongress.cfm (361 words)

	Trades Union Congress
		The present building (designed by D. du R. Aberdeen and opened in 1957) was planned as a memorial to the trade unionists who died during the two World Wars.
		‘The spirit of trade unionism’ is the bronze sculpture by Bernard Meadows in the front of the building.
		While early trade unionism had little formal educational activity, there was a real sense in which under the influence of Owenite thinking a number saw involvement in union activity was an education in itself.
	www.infed.org /walking/wa-tuc.htm (211 words)

	Trades Union Congress : Social Questions, Education, Housing, Health, Law, Defence, predominantly 1920-60
		Cataloguing of the Trades Union Congress Archive in 1991 was made possible by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust.
		Memorandum on the penetration of the trades unions by Roman Catholic guilds.
		Correspondence regarding the Trades Union Congress memorandum; mainly comments from individuals, including R.H. Tawney; also protests from Catholics at Section IX which proposed that state aid for denominational schools should be abolished and that there should be no class of reserved teachers for religious instruction.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/292a0800.htm (6460 words)

	Trades Union Congress Library Collections (TUC)
		Accordingly, trade unionism, organised action, and political struggle - throughout the Caribbean as well as in the UK - were key organising themes of the survey methodology.
		Trade union foreign policy: a study of British and American trade union activities in Jamaica.
		Trade unionism: the evidence of the TUC to the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations.
	www.casbah.ac.uk /surveys/archivereportsTUC.stm (3953 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Health and Safety
		Leading charity, RNID, and the TUC are teaming up to ask workers and their managers to Break the Sound Barrier and take the charity's new telephone hearing check.
		As the Montreal Kyoto conference draws to a close, Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary, supported calls from the international trade union delegation in Montreal for an âemployment commitmentâ in the Kyoto Treaty.
		The TUC is warning that the recommendations of a top Commons committee would have a damaging impact on workplace compensation claimants and on prevention.
	www.tuc.org.uk /h_and_s/index.cfm (398 words)

	Toronto Ultimate Club - Home
		After 2 years of serving the TUC as General Manager, Christopher Lowcock has decided not to renew his term for 2006.
		TUC is proud to offer three indoor leagues(women's, men's and co-ed), broken into two sessions (fall and winter).The fall session has started in the co-ed division and is full.
		TUC members are encouraged to submit an incident report whenever they encounter injury, field problems or unsportsmanlike play.
	www.tuc.org (810 words)

	TRADES UNION CONGRESS, BRIGHTON
		I cannot see that it is consistent with ecumenical Christian social concern for workers to be denied a say in those decisions which concern them in a large part of their lives, or to be denied a right to be represented by a trade union of their own choice in dealings with their employers.
		I was very pleased to learn that the TUC General Council has welcomed this report warmly and agreed to work closely alongside the Churches in following it up, and I am delighted that you are devoting part of your time here to discussing the report after this morning's session.
		I value the role of the TUC in bringing together such a huge range of interests and helping them to define and pursue their wider, common aims.
	www.archbishopofcanterbury.org /carey/speeches/970909.htm (2104 words)

	Trades Union Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trades Union Congress - with member unions representing over six and a half million working people, the TUC campaign for a fair deal at work and for...
		National Trades Union Congress, which has become much more than a simple union, provides information about their aims, co-operatives, and membership.
		Copyright © Trades Union Congress 2004, unless otherwise stated.
	www.majorityshareholder.info /info/Trades-Union-Congress (352 words)

	ETUC
		Today’s decision by the European Commission to grant special trade preferences to some of the world’s worst violators of trade union rights shows serious incoherence in the EU’s stated policy of using positive incentives to get its trading partners to respect workers’ rights, according to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).
		The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is pleased that the European Council on 15-16 December reached a crucial agreement on the 2007-2013 budget, enabling the European Union to get out of the deadlock it has been in since June.
		The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) finds that the ministerial agreement reached in Hong Kong on the continuation of the Doha Round of trade talks misses its fundamental objective of promoting development and decent employment.
	www.etuc.org (203 words)

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