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Trades Union Congress (TUC) - The national trade union organisation in the UK. Includes reports, press releases and briefings on law, health and safety and workplace rights. Email alert service available.
Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Union Council - Organising Centre - Includes information about trade union organising in London, a web forum, a live chat room, a mailing list, news, and even detailed information about the Workers Beer Company, which this Council owns.
Birmingham Trades Union Council - Local organisation for Birmingham trade unions with local news and resources.
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.
Chelmsford Trades Union Council - Local voice of British TUC. Contains links to national/local sites, boycott information, co-operative sites, poetry, songs, literature, socialist newspapers, health and safety advice.
Barnstaple & District Trades Council - Trades Council in North Devon
New Unionism project - TUC - The TUC's New Unionism project supports unions in increasing membership, building effective workplace organisation, recruiting and training more workplace reps
Wolverhampton, Bilston and District TUC - Current campaigns and activities, links, annual reports and douments, photographs, May Day, WMDay, and history of the TUC.
Calderdale Trades Union Council - Representative organization of trades unions in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, with news, event listings and discussion forum.
Plymouth TUC Unemployed Workers Centre - Advice, referral, resources and support for the unemployed and low paid in the Devon and Cornwall area. Supported and run by unemployed volunteers and union activists.
Dundee Trades Union Council - Local news, contacts, events and trade union campaigns.
Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils - GLATUC brings together London's TUCs. Includes directory of local trade union councils, events and policy information.
Torfaen Trades Union Council - Local trade union contacts, campaigns and links.
Scottish Trade Union Review - Magazine for trade unionists in Scotland published with the support of the General Council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Much of the content is subscriber-only.
Brent Trades Union Council - Local trades union and labour movement news and campaigns.
Harrogate and District Trades Union Council - Local trades union news with organisational details and campaign information.
Blackburn and District Trades Council - Local trade union news and contacts.
Wales TUC - Information about the Wales Trades Union Congress and news, documents and contact information.
Oldham TUC - Trades Union Council for the Oldham area. Includes events listing and campaign details.
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Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Trades Union Congress We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Trades Union Congress "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Trades Union Congress If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Trades Union Congress Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Trades Union Congress When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Trades Union Congress Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Trades Union Congress I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Trades Union Congress A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Trades Union Congress You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trades Union Congress The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Trades Union Congress Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Have you ever noticed? 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