TUCDIRECTORY TRUSTED BY YOUR UNION best practice advice • returning officer statutory ballots • industrial action ballots turnout maximisation • independent scrutineer consultative ballots • data processing and capture secure print and fulfilment • results analysis artwork and design • membership profiling • e-voting e-distribution • branded voting websites digital engagement Contact us: 020 8365 8909 [email protected] @ERSvotes CONTENTS SECTION 1 SECTION 6 INTRODUCTION INTERNATIONAL Welcome 5 International affiliations 94 TUC structure 8 ITUC regional organisations 97 ITUC global union federations 98 SECTION 2 TUC PEOPLE SECTION 7 EXTERNAL CONTACTS Policy staff at Congress House 14 Policy staff in the regions 21 Campaigning, charity 102 and community SECTION 3 Employer and personnel 105 TUC SERVICES organisations Financial and other services 106 Information service 24 Government 106 Publishing 24 Industrial relations, workers’ 108 Websites 24 rights and union history TUC Aid 25 International, environment 109 Organising Academy 26 and anti-poverty Centres for the Unemployed 26 Legal 110 Trades Union Councils 27 Non-TUC unions and 111 TUC and young people 27 confederations Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum 29 Pensions 111 TUC Library Collections 29 Political 112 TUC archive 30 Research organisations 112 and public bodies SECTION 4 Skills and education 116 TRADE UNIONS Union statistics 32 SECTION 8 TUC member unions 41 CALENDAR 118 Confederations of unions 80 SECTION 5 UNIONLEARN AND TUC EDUCATION TUC Education 83 Learning through unions 88 1 SECTION ONE INTRODUCTION WELCOME 5 TUC STRUCTURE 8 WELCOME TO THE 2016 EDITION OF THE TUC DIRECTORY Every membership organisation offers a single, reliable, statistical resource for those who follow its fortunes, and for the TUC that is the Directory, our annual yearbook about our unions and TUC work. I hope you will find it useful in 2016. A printed version of the Directory is available from: 5 tuc.org.uk/publications/tuc-directory-2016 INTRODUCTION The affiliates section lists all our organisations and the sectors where they have members. There is also data from the latest Labour Force Survey of trade union density and reach, presented graphically. This year will be a crucial one for working people as more government cuts bite, slowing economic recovery and piling pressure on workers’ living standards. At the TUC, we’re determined to stand up for fair taxes, decent jobs and higher pay as the best way to secure a recovery built to last. At the same time, we will campaign to protect unions’ right to strike and showcase the fantastic work that unions and our reps do. There’s more about our campaign priorities on the following pages. The TUC and Britain’s unions are ready for a busy 2016. Frances O’Grady General secretary The TUC is the voice of Britain at work. Our overall objectives are to raise the quality of working life and promote equality for all. Our mission is to be a high profile organisation that campaigns successfully for trade union aims and values; assists trade unions to increase membership and effectiveness; cuts out wasteful rivalry between unions; and promotes 6 trade union solidarity. INTRODUCTION Who we are ǃ provide, or help unions provide, an extensive programme of work-based Just as individual workers benefit learning services, helping to raise by joining together in a union, so unions national levels of learning and skills gain strength by acting jointly through the TUC. The TUC brings unions ǃ organise a wide range of training for together to draw up common policies on around 34,000 union reps each year issues that matter to people at work. ǃ help unions develop new services We represent more than 5.8 million for their members workers in 52 unions. Globally we are ǃ help unions avoid clashes with part of a union family with 180 million each other members in more than 160 countries. ǃ have offices in central London, Our unions range in size from Unite with in Cardiff, in Brussels and at 1.4 million members to small specialist regional centres across England. unions with only a few hundred. Most unions are also affiliated to the Global Union Federation for their sector. Our campaign priorities Congress 2015 adopted TUC CAMPAIGN PLAN 2015 What we do a new campaign plan for NEW CHALLENGES, the TUC, setting out five CHANGING PRIORITIES ǃ make representations to priority areas of work. government and represent British workers on European Union and international bodies Protecting workers’ right to strike ǃ campaign on workplace issues ǃ The TUC will build ǃ represent working people the widest possible on public bodies campaign against ǃ carry out research on economic the Trade Union JOBS | DEMOCRACY | and employment-related issues Bill, to protect RIGHTS | EQUALITY | the right to strike. SOLIDARITY ǃ work with others to build international solidarity and to ǃ We will work across all political connect the trade union movement parties, challenge outdated in Britain to unions across the globe stereotypes about strikes and trade unions, and show the real face of modern trade unionism ǃ And we’ll support union Reaching out to young workers efforts to defend and build ǃ We will launch a major public- workplace organisation. facing campaign to appeal to young workers, focused on the quality An end to austerity economics and experience of work for young people and union organisation as a ǃ We will make the case for route to better standards at work. a high-investment, high- productivity economy with great ǃ We will develop ways to make it jobs and skills at its heart. easier for young people to join and be active in trade unions and 7 ǃ We will expose the impact and the INTRODUCTION deliver a strategy to organise young false economy of ideologically driven workers, including supporting union cuts, privatisation and outsourcing organising campaigns with young ǃ And we’ll make the case for workers in the private sector. excellent public services and our social security safety net. Why we need to act It is a critical time for Britain’s A twenty-first century Europe trade unions. Jobs, services, union ǃ We will make the case for a organisation and even the democratic twenty-first century people’s rights of union members are EU based on decent jobs and under threat, and the unbalanced fairness, not a race to the bottom. economic recovery looks set to repeat the mistakes of the past. ǃ We will highlight the importance of EU-derived rights at work; and The task that trade unions face is to campaign for tough action against build our strength in workplaces and employers who undercut pay by reach out to communities. We need to exploiting migrant workers. win new allies and maximise pressure on the government to resist their worst ǃ We will advocate trade agreements proposals. But opposition is never that put people first, rather enough. We must be at the forefront of than privilege investors. making the case for investment and productivity to deliver stronger, fairer Making devolution and growth and great jobs and services. decentralisation work for people We will need new thinking, new tactics ǃ We will capitalise on the and new approaches. But the solidarity opportunities of devolution and and shared values upon which the the core cities agenda to improve trade union movement is built hold outcomes for working people, true and our ranks are resilient. That through strong union engagement, gives us a strong foundation on which procurement and positive to win – not just for our members approaches to public services reform. but for our wider communities too. ǃ We will resist further breaking As we approach our 150th anniversary up of national bargaining and in 2018, the TUC is determined to employment law, health and safety, promote modern, confident trade equalities and national minimum unionism, ready to take on the wage legislation – on which many challenges of the next 150 years. collective agreements build – which could lead to a race to the bottom. TUC structure How the TUC makes policy Motions sent to Congress Representation on that body IONS E UN AD TR Trades Councils and Trades Councils Conference Equalities Conferences and Young Workers Conference Congress Trades Councils Joint Consultative Committee General Council Equalities Committees and Young Workers Forum The union officials who Executive make up membership of the General Council and Committee Executive Committee are shown on pages 10–11 The end of Congress meeting of TUC STRUCTURE the General Council also elects the Unions pay an affiliation fee to the President for that Congress year. TUC and in return receive a range of The 2015–16 president is Liz Snape services and the opportunity to work of UNISON; she chairs General together to draw up common policies. Council and Executive meetings and is consulted by the general secretary on all major issues. Policy-making There are also committees that link TUC policy is set by the annual to other parts of the trade union Congress, which meets each year in 9 movement. The Women’s Committee INTRODUCTION early September. All affiliated unions are includes members elected at the entitled to be represented – the number annual TUC Women’s Conference as of delegates depends on the size of the well as General Council members. union. Congress considers motions that The Race Relations Committee, have been submitted by unions and by the Disabled Workers’ Committee various conferences. It also receives a and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and report from the General Council and any Transgender Committee have similar special statements which have been links to their own conferences. The agreed for presentation to Congress. Young Workers Forum also reports The 2016 Congress will be held in to the General Council, as does the Brighton from Sunday 11 to body for Trades Union Councils Wednesday 14 September.