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Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) - The official site of the second largest union in the UK. News and information.
8/591 Branch TGWU - Members of 8/591 Branch TGWU are employed in the UK chemical industry by the Huntsman company. Based in Middlesbrough, Teesside in the North East of the UK.
T&G Housing Workers Branch (TGWU) - Transport and General Workers Union, Housing Workers Branch (1/1111) with information on health and safety, pay and conditions and workplace rights.
1/888 Road Transport Branch (TGWU) - Based in Sussex, England, this branch of the TGWU welcomes truckers in the UK and from around the world. Membership information packs are available in 5 different languages including Russian and Serbo Croat. There is also a facility to hold online 'virtual Branch meetings.'
8/162 Branch TGWU - Homepage of Branch 8/162 of the Transport and General Workers Union based in the North East of England. Our membership consists of road tanker drivers from several different employers.
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Transport and General Workers Union If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." 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(Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Transport and General Workers Union "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Transport and General Workers Union "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Transport and General Workers Union I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Transport and General Workers Union Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Transport and General Workers Union Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Transport and General Workers Union In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Transport and General Workers Union There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Transport and General Workers Union If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Transport and General Workers Union Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Transport and General Workers Union If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Transport and General Workers Union Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Transport and General Workers Union Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Transport and General Workers Union "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." 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