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8 unusual facts about Trades Union Congress


Battle of Lewes Road

The general strike was called off the following day by the Trades Union Congress, and some transport workers who struck were not reinstated by their employers.

Clementina Black

In 1886, she became honorary secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and moved an equal pay motion at the 1888 Trades Union Congress.

Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham

It also forbade civil service unions from affiliating with the Trades Union Congress.

Louie Bennett

In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Conference and in the same year was elected to the executive committee of the Labour Party.

Penrhys

The march was organised by the South Wales Miners' Federation and the Rhondda District, but lost support due to opposition from the TUC.

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

It poked fun at the British trade union movement which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the Winter of Discontent.

Trades Union Congress

However, the first TUC meeting was not held until 1868 when the Manchester and Salford Trades Council convened the founding meeting in the Manchester Mechanics' Institute (on what is now Princess Street and was then David Street; the building is at no. 103).

William Mellor

He became editor of the Herald in 1926, succeeding George Lansbury when the Trades Union Congress took over the paper, and was fired in 1930 soon after Odhams Press took half-ownership with the TUC.


Helena Wojtczak

The book was launched at the House of Commons, at the TUC Conference 2005 and at the National Railway Museum.

John Monks

John Stephen Monks, Baron Monks (born 5 August 1945 in Manchester) is a member of the House of Lords and was the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK from 1993 until 2003, when he became the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

Mechanics' Institute, Manchester

The Mechanics' Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, is notable as the building in which three significant British institutions were founded: the Trades Union Congress (TUC), The Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).

NHS Together

NHS Together is a campaign alliance of the health service unions in the United Kingdom and staff associations working with the TUC, which opposes any form of commercial competition with or within the National Health Service.

The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way

In Chapter 7, "A Fire Burning Under Water", Hitchens describes the final stage in his becoming disenchanted with the British Left – the British Trades Union Congress's (TUC) failure to support the Gdansk shipyard workers challenging their communist government.


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