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Ambulance Service Union
Amicus
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Association of Teachers and Lecturers
Association of University Teachers
British Air Line Pilots Association
British Dietetic Association
British Medical Association
Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Communication Workers Union
Community and District Nursing Association
Community and Youth Workers Union
CONNECT
Engineers and Managers Association
EQUITY
Fire Brigades Union
General Federation of Trade Unions
GMB
Graphical, Paper and Media Union
Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association
KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades
Musicians Union
Napo
NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
National Association of Headteachers
National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers
National Union of Journalists
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
National Union of Teachers
Offshore Industry Liaison Committee
Other Organisations
Public and Commercial Services Union
Royal College of Nursing
Trades Union Congress
Transport and General Workers Union
Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
UNIFI
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
UNISON
Writers' Guild of Great Britain

Trade Unions Links

LabourStart UK - Daily labour and trade union news service, webring, discussion list and bookshop.
Commonwealth Trade Union Council - The CTUC links trade unions representing over 30 million trade union members throughout the Commonwealth. Includes international news and mailing list.
United Kingdom Labour Links - Annotated list of UK trade unions with links to their web sites.
Workers Rights! - Union and political information for activists and potential members.
Miner's Advice - Advice for miners, ex-miners, their families and their dependants with news and discussion board.
National Federation of SubPostmasters - Information and news about UK sub post offices and sub-postmasters' trade union, with news and research briefings.
Institute of Railway Signal Engineers - Licensing, careers and technical information for signal engineers.
Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union - Union representing workers in the baking industry or allied trades, with information on health and safety, training and newsletter.
Ulster Teachers Union - An organization for primary and secondary school teachers in Ireland. Includes information on services, insurance, and pay issues.
workSMART Union Finder - TUC site with information on workplace rights, health and safety and a guide to choosing a union, searchable by company or sector.
Association of Flight Attendants Council Seven - The London Heathrow Airport branch of United Airlines' global flight attendants' union. Union and industry news, "London Underground" magazine, information on flight attendants' legal hours, union campaigns and contact information.
Association of  Educational Psychologists (AEP) - Professional association and trade union for educational psychologists in the UK. Includes news, details of membership, journal and careers information.
ACCORD - Represents members in all parts of the HBOS Group including Intelligent Finance, Clerical Medical, Card Services and Bank of Scotland as well as Corporate Sites and the retail network.
Alliance & Leicester Group Union of Staff (ALGUS) - Union representing staff working for Alliance & Leicester plc. Includes membership form and members-only area.
Association for College Management (ACM) - Union representing managers in post-16 education and includes newsletter, helpline and members-only area.
Britannia Staff Union (BSU) - Represents employees of Britannia Building Society and its group of companies, with information on membership benefits and union structure.
British Association of Colliery Management - Technical, Energy & Administrative Management (BACM-TEAM) - Contact details, information on membership and members-only area.
British Orthoptic Society (BOS) - The professional body for orthoptists, with contact and organisational details, equipment suppliers and information for patients.
First Division Association (FDA) - Represents senior public servants. Includes contacts, membership details and members-only area.
National Union of Marine Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers (NUMAST) - Includes news updates, membership benefits and campaigns.
Nationwide Group Staff Union (NGSU) - Represents staff of Nationwide Building Society. Includes membership details and members-only area.
Prison Officers' Association (POA) - Details of membership benefits, news, events and how to join.
Prospect - Formed after the merger of EMA and IPMS, representing professional engineers. Includes advice and services and membership details.
Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (SCP) - Includes virtual learning centre, publications and job vacancy alert service.
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) - Includes information on health and safety and workplace rights.
Justice for Mineworkers Campaign - History of the 1984/85 British miners strike and the 966 miners who were victimised during and after the strike.
Trouble at Work - Advice on health and safety, workplace rights and respect at work for nursing and working students.
British Association of Occupational Therapists - Professional association and trade union for occupational therapists, with information on training, careers and professional issues.
British Association of Dental Nurses - Professional association and registered trade union for dental nurses, with professional journal, careers information and specialist sections.
United Road Transport Union - Union representing professional drivers in general haulage, parcels, tankers, tippers and distribution.
Ice Hockey Players' Association - Registered trade union for professional ice hockey players with industry news, membership information and newsletter.
Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) - Trade union representing members across the civil and public service and the voluntary sector in Northern Ireland.
Royal College of Midwives - Registered trade union for midwives, with news, educational resources and journal.
Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association - Trade union for secondary school teachers in Scotland with news, membership benefits and contact details.
Federation of Clinical Scientists - Registered trade union for clinical scientists, with information on pay and conditions, bargaining and workplace advice.
Incorporated Society of Musicians - Professional association for musicians in the UK. Details of services, press releases and highlights of monthly journal.
The Alliance for Health Professionals - Trade union federation formed by the British Dietetic Association, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, British Orthoptic Society, Federation of Clinical Scientists, Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists & the Society of Radiographers. Includes bargaining, pay and rights information.
National Association of Educational Inspectors, Advisors and Consultants (NAEIAC) - Represents local authority inspectors, advisers and other workers. Includes membership details and briefings.
TUC Learning Services - Education and training site for trade union activists and members, including listing of events and courses and subject-specific email alerts.
Ceramic and Allied Trades Union - Community trade union based in Stoke-on-Trent. Regularly updated with the latest news, campaigns, and who to contact at the union.
British Orthoptic Society North West Region - News, events, information about orthoptics, positions vacant, a directory of orthoptic departments in the region, an orthoptics links page, and a members online forum.
ISTC - Community-based union formerly known as the Iron and Steel Trade Corporation. Includes National League of the Blind & Disabled (NLBD).
Abbey National Group Union (ANGU) - Union representing workers in Abbey National plc and associated group companies. Formerly known as ANSA.
UNIONREPS.org.uk - A TUC-run network for shop stewards and other union representatives with discussion boards, courses and events and email newsletter. Free registration is required.
Immigration and Nationality Workers' Union (INWU) - An independent union for people who work for the Immigration & Nationality Directorate (IND) in Croydon, with information on the Union and how to join.
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(George Bernard Shaw) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Trade Unions A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Trade Unions Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Trade Unions See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Trade Unions The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Trade Unions Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Man and wife make one fool. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Trade Unions In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Trade Unions The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Trade Unions "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Trade Unions "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trade Unions "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Trade Unions "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. 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