Labour Research Department

The Labour Research Department provides news and information for trade unionists. LRD has a long history and remains the leading source of up to the minute news and information for trade unionists. LRD was set up in July 1912 as a Committee of Enquiry into the Control of Industry

Labourstart

Site featuring worldwide labour news, labour websites and forums

LabourStart TV

Short videos taken from mainstream and trade union sources of strikes,
demos and other collective action by trade unionists across the globe.

Working Class Movement Library

The Working Class Movement Library is a collection of English language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts, concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labour movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.

North West Labour History Group

The North West Labour History Group was formed in the early 1970s to promote and popularise the knowledge and study of labour history in the region.

Chelmsford (Essex) Trades Union Council

Local voice of TUC. Contains boycott information, links to national/local trade union, co-op sites. Health/safety information and activists' diary.

Calderdale TUC

The Calderdale Trades Union Council represents the trades union branches in the Calderdale Metropolitan Council District of West Yorkshire.

The Lothian Trade Union and Community resource centre

Uk Trade Unions

Amicus

Is the UK's largest manufacturing, technical & skilled persons' union. With over 1.2m members in the private & public sectors, we are a major industrial force.

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

Railways (drivers, operational supervisors and staff)

Association of Teachers and Lecturers

Teachers, lecturers and teaching support staff in nursery, primary, secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges

Association of University Teachers

Academic and related staff in higher education

Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union

Broadcasting, film, video, theatre, cinema and related sectors

Ceramic and Allied Trades Union

The ceramics industry (all areas)

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy and health service

Communication Workers Union

Posts and telecommunications in Post Office, British Telecom, Cable and Wireless, Cable TV, National Girobank and related technologies and industries; engineering, manual, clerical and call centre grades below management level

Community

Community is a new union for life that serves its members both at work and where they live. It was formed in 2004 following the merger of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) and the National Union of Knitwear, Footwear & Apparel Trades (KFAT).

Educational Institute of Scotland

Teachers, lecturers, associated educational personnel (Scotland)

Equity – incorporating the Variety Artiestes Federation

Performance workers in theatre, film television, radio and variety

GMB

Civil air transport, security, AA, aerospace, defence, clothing, textiles, food production and distribution, retail, hotel, catering, chemicals and process, construction, building supplies, furniture and timber, local government, NHS, care, education, engineering, offshore, shipbuilding, energy, utilities

Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists

Scientific, engineering, managerial and professional staff in agriculture, aviation, defence, energy, environment, health and safety, heritage, research councils

Musicians' Union

Performers engaged in the music profession including music writers and instrumental music teachers

National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers

The University & College Lecturers' Union

Post school education – for example from GCSE to post graduate studies – representing lecturers in prisons, adult education institutions, further education colleges, higher education colleges and universities

National Union of Journalists

National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers

Merchant navy and all related areas

National Union of Mineworkers

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

Railways and shipping

National Union of Teachers

Prison Officers Association

Persons employed in any penal or secure establishment or special hospital as a prison officer, a nursing grade, a non-industrial stores grade and special hospitals staff

Public and Commercial Services Union

government departments and agencies, public bodies, private sector information technology and other service companies

Society of Radiographers

National Health Service

Transport and General Workers' Union

Administrative, clerical, technical and supervisory; agriculture; building, construction and civil engineering; chemical, oil and rubber manufacture; civil air transport; docks and waterways; food, drink and tobacco; general workers; passenger services; power and engineering; public services; road transport commercial; textiles; vehicle building and automotive

Transport Salaried Staffs' Association

Administrative, clerical, supervisory, managerial, professional and technical, and research; executive officers and allied employees of railways, road haulage, and road passenger undertakings Also port authorities, waterways, hotels and catering, travel, shipping, railway rolling stock, manufacturers, and allied businesses in Great Britain and Ireland

Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians

Construction and building

Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

Retail, distributive, food processing and manufacturing, laundries, catering, chemical processing, pharmaceutical, football pools, home shopping, warehouses, insurance agents, clerical, milkround and dairy process, call centres

Unison

Local government, health care, the water, gas and electricity industries, further and higher education, transport, voluntary sector, housing associations, police support staff

The union for professionals in communications

Telecommunications, information technology and related industries