TUC Directory 2021
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2021 CONTENTS SECTION 1 SECTION 4 About the TUC Trade unions Welcome 05 Union statistics 34 Who we are 06 TUC member unions 44 What we do 06 Confederations of unions 90 TUC priorities 2020–21 07 How the TUC works 08 SECTION 5 Committee membership 10 Skills, education and training SECTION 2 Learning through unions 94 TUC people TUC Education 98 Policy staff at Congress House 16 Policy staff in Wales and SECTION 6 the English regions 22 International relations ETUC affiliated unions 104 SECTION 3 ITUC regional organisations 107 TUC services ITUC global union federations 108 Helping unions grow and thrive 26 TUC Aid 110 TUC Information Service 28 TUC publications 28 SECTION 7 Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum 29 Calendar of events 111 TUC Library Collections 31 TUC archive 31 © James Brittain/Hugh Broughton Architects Broughton Brittain/Hugh James © SECTION 1 ABOUT THE TUC BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE WELCOME TO THE 2021 EDITION OF THE TUC DIRECTORY No-one could have foreseen the twin challenges of the global pandemic and consequent recession. We should be proud of the way the trade union movement responded, stepping up to fight the pandemic, demanding action to protect jobs and supporting our members through thick and thin. We showed the importance of unions standing up for working people. We adapted how we work and found new ways to build common purpose, understanding and solidarity when we couldn’t be physically together. We adopted the Organising Pledge that commits us to recruiting new members, seeking new recognitions and supporting a new generation of reps. And throughout, we carried on advocating for rights, dignity, equality, fair pay and safety for all working people. The TUC directory is a guidebook to our movement. In it, you’ll find details of TUC member unions, TUC staff, programmes and priorities, and details of our sister movements and organisations. I hope you find it useful. Frances O’Grady General secretary ABOUT BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE THE TUC 05 OUR VISION The TUC is the voice of Britain at work. We exist to improve working life and promote equality for everyone. OUR MISSION The TUC brings together 5.5 million working people who belong to our 48 member unions. We support trade unions to grow and thrive, and we stand up for everyone who works for a living. Every day, we campaign for more and better jobs, and a more equal, more prosperous country. Who we are › stand up for everyone who works for a living, by publishing The Trades Union Congress (TUC) research and evidence, and exists to make the working world a campaigning for changes better place for everyone. to the law and in society Working people joining together advocate for collective bargaining, can change things. For more than › trade unionism and putting 150 years, unions have fought working people at the heart of for safer workplaces and wages our society, economy and politics you can build a life on. And today we’re needed more than ever to › help union members get on in life, make sure every job is a decent through running and managing job and everyone at work is treated learning and skills programmes. with respect. Our values guide us in all our work. We stand for equality, fairness and What we do justice, and for dignity and respect for all working people. We believe The TUC’s job is to: in solidarity: that working people › support trade unions to grow and can achieve more acting together thrive, helping them represent than they can do on their own. And their members and keep pace we are internationalists, acting with with the changing world of work trade unionists around the world to promote working people’s interests. ABOUT BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE THE TUC 06 TUC priorities 2020–21 3. Trade unions at the forefront of tackling racism Congress 2020 set out the following priorities for the TUC and the trade Institutional racism and economic union movement in 2020–21: inequality endure here in the UK. In 2021, we will continue the work of the General Council taskgroup on 1. Preventing mass anti-racism, leading the trade union unemployment and building a movement to recommit itself to better recovery anti-racism and fighting for decent There is no bigger priority for livelihoods, equality and justice for the trade union movement than Black workers. protecting good jobs. In 2021, we will demand government protects 4. Fighting for safe workplaces jobs in the hardest-hit sectors and creates millions of decent jobs Too often, throughout this that Britain needs to prevent the pandemic, the government and devastation of mass unemployment. employers haven’t kept workers And we will oppose a no-deal Brexit safe. As the economy recovers or a bad-deal Brexit that will harm in 2021, we will demand safe jobs and livelihoods. workplaces, proper enforcement of the law on health and safety, new duties on employers, new rights for 2. Winning decent pay and workers and union reps, and decent decent jobs sick pay for all. It is the hard work and dedication of our key workers – in the public 5. Shining a light on the and private sectors – that will get us unequal impact of coronavirus through this crisis. In 2021, we will campaign for a fast-rising national Black workers, women, disabled minimum wage, and for decent pay people and LGBT+ people have all settlements throughout the public been disproportionately affected sector, not a pay freeze. At the by the health and economic crises long-awaited employment bill, we of coronavirus. Those on low wages will fight for a ban on the zero-hours and in insecure work have been contracts and false self-employment on the frontline of the pandemic. that leave carers, shop workers and In 2021, we will demand the delivery drivers struggling. government put equality at the heart of their plans for recovery. ABOUT BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE THE TUC 07 6. Building a global recovery The TUC general secretary leads for working people the TUC’s work throughout the year. She is supported by the deputy The coronavirus pandemic has general secretary and a team shown the failings of global rules of staff working in London, the that put the needs of corporations English regions, Wales, Scotland above those of workers. In 2021, and Brussels. we will demand a global pandemic response that puts the needs and The General Council elects the TUC the voices of working people at president. Their one-year term in the centre, to deliver a sustainable office starts at the close of Congress. recovery for everyone. The president chairs Congress, the General Council and the Executive How the TUC works Committee meetings, represents the TUC at national and international Every September, the UK’s trade events and supports and advises the unions meet at Congress. Congress general secretary. is where the movement decides Each year, the TUC also runs its priorities for the coming year, conferences for Black, disabled, and what the TUC should do to LGBT+, women and young workers. achieve them. Each union sends These conferences and their elected representatives and raises issues for committees guide the General discussion and debate. Council and Congress in setting Between Congresses, the General policy on relevant equalities issues. Council oversees the TUC’s work Wales TUC’s conference and and decides how to respond to the Welsh General Council are events. The General Council is responsible for deciding TUC made up of representatives of policy on devolved matters and member unions, plus reserved seats overseeing TUC activity on issues for women, LGBT+ workers, Black that are the responsibility of the and minority ethnic workers and Welsh government. disabled workers. The TUC’s English regions each Each year, the General Council have their own regional conference, appoints a smaller executive to guide and advise the regional committee from among its own secretary and their team in taking members. This group meets each forward the TUC’s priorities over the month to implement policy, manage coming year. the TUC’s finances and deal with urgent business. ABOUT BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE THE TUC 08 © Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk GENERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS Membership for the year 2020–21 The body responsible for developing and implementing TUC policy and strategy between Congresses. It meets seven times a year and each day during Congress. Dave Allan Michelle Codrington- Sue Ferns Unite Rogers Prospect NASUWT Louise Atkinson Larry Flanagan National Education Manuel Cortes Educational Institute of Union Transport Salaried Scotland Staffs Association Sheila Bearcroft MBE Martin Furlong GMB Kevin Courtney College of Podiatry National Education Josie Bird Steve Gillan Union UNISON POA Ruth Cross Mary Bousted Jo Grady Union of Shop, National Education University and Distributive and Allied Union College Union Workers Tony Burke Charlie Gray Tony Dale Unite GMB Union of Shop, Gail Cartmail Distributive and Allied Isabelle Gutierrez (president) Workers Musicians’ Union Unite Neil Derrick Ian Lawrence Mick Cash GMB Napo National Union of Rail, Mark Dickinson Paddy Lillis Maritime and Transport Nautilus International Usdaw Workers Maria Exall Brian Linn Mike Clancy Communication Aegis Prospect Workers Union Links to TUC-affiliated union websites can be found inSection 4 ABOUT BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE THE TUC 10 Jane Loftus Patrick Roach Horace Trubridge Communication NASUWT Musicians’ Union Workers Union Maggie Ryan Steve Turner Annette Unite Unite Mansell-Green Malcolm Sage Dave Ward British Dietetic GMB Communication Association Workers Union Mark Serwotka Susan Matthews Public and Commercial Simon