The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British organisation that represents the UK's trade unions. These consist of 71 affiliated unions with a total of about seven million members.

The TUC's decision making body is the annual Congress which takes place in September. Between Congresses decisions are made by the General Council which meets every two months. The Executive Committee is elected by the Council from its members. The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary.

The UK Association of Organised Trades , founded in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1866, was the forerunner of the (TUC). The Sheffield Trades Council , which is still active today, was founded in 1871. (Sheffield's early success in steel production had involved long working hours, in unpleasant conditions which offered little or no safety protection. It was no coincidence, therefore, that the city became one of the main centres for trade union organisation and agitation in the UK. By the 1860s, the inevitable conflict between capital and labour provoked the so-called "Sheffield Outrages").

List of members

A

• The Abbey National Group Union (ANGU) [1]
• ACCORD [2]
• Alliance and Leicester Group Union of Staff (ALGUS) [3]
• AMICUS [4] [5]
• Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) [6]
• Association for College Management (ACM) [7]
• Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) [8]
• Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) [9]
• AMO
• Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) [10]
• Association of University Teachers (AUT) [11]

B

• Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) [12]
• Britannia Staff Union (BSU) [13]
• British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) [14]
• British Association of Colliery Management - Technical, Energy and Administrative Management (BACM-TEAM) [15]
• British Dietetic Association (BDA) [16]
• British Orthoptic Society (BOS) [17]
• Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) [18]

C

• Card Setting Machine Tenters Society (CSMTS)
• Ceramic and Allied Trades Union (CATU) [19]
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) [20]
• Communication Workers Union (CWU) [21]
• Community and District Nursing Association (CDNA) [22]
• The Community and Youth Workers' Union (CYWU) [23]
• Connect [24]

D

• Derbyshire Building Society Staff Association
• Diageo Staff Association

E

• Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) [25]
• Engineering and Fastener Trade Union (EFTU)
• EQUITY [26]

F

• FDA [27]
• Fire Brigades Union (FBU) [28]

G

• General Union of Loom Overlookers (GULO)
• GMB () [29]
• Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU) [30]

H

• Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) [31]

I

• ISTC [32]

M

• Musicians' Union (MU) [33]

N

• NAPO [34]
• NATFHE [35]
• National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS)
• National Association of Co-operative Officials (NACO)
• National Association of Educational Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (NAEIAC) [36]
• National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) [37]
• National Union of Domestic Appliances and General Operatives (NUDAGO)
• National Union of Journalists (NUJ) [38]
• National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades (KFAT) [39]
• National Union of Lock and Metal Workers (NULMW)
• National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers (NUMAST) [40]
• National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
• National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) [41]
• National Union of Teachers (NUT) [42]
• Nationwide Group Staff Union (NGSU) [43]

P

• Prison Officers Association (POA) [44]
• Professional Footballers Association (PFA) [45]
• Prospect [46]
• Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) [47]

S

• Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union (SWSWU)
• Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (SCP) [48]
• Society of Radiographers (SoR) [49]

T

• Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) [50]
• Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) [51]

U

• UBAC
• Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (UCAC)
• UNIFI [52]
• Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) [53]
• Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) [54]
• UNISON [55]
• United Road Transport Union (URTU)

W

• The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) [56]

Y

• Yorkshire Independent Staff Association (YISA)

See also

• List of trade unions
• UK topics
• Labour Research Department

External links

• Official TUC website