WEB LiNKS

Trade union

• Accord
• http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
  More like a staff association for people at the halifax, but affiliated to the TUC

• ALGUS Online
• http://www.algus.org.uk/
  Staff association for the Alliance and Leicester staff of this world

• Amicus
• http://www.amicustheunion.org
  Big union, the result of a merger between the Engineers AEEU and the general MSF union. Once the stronghold of New Labour, but he was dumped against the odds by Derek Simpson, a refreshing wind.

• ANGU
• http://www.angu.org.uk/
  Carrying on the trend of banks having their own special union each. here's to one big bankers union!!

• ASLEF
• http://www.aslef.org.uk/
  Train drivers union, dodgy leadership, but a militant past has ensured a half decent pay packet for it's members.

• Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP)
• http://www.aep.org.uk/
  Says it all in the title

• Association of Flight Attendants (AFA)
• http://www.afalhr.org.uk/
  "And there'll be picket lines here, here and over there, please be sure to fasten your stewards armband by pulling on the yellow tab"

• Association of University Teachers (AUT)
• http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
  Have to strike for a few weeks before most students notice, but given the research and money making priorities of Universities nowadays, they find themselves increasingly powerful.

• ATL
• http://www.askatl.org.uk/
  m 29,554 f 80,529 total 110,083 main trades and industries teachers, lecturers and teaching support staff in nursery, primary, secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges Gen sec Dr Mary Bousted Annual conference 5-8 April 2004.

• BOS
• http://www.orthoptics.org.uk/
  Orthoptics

• British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA)
• http://www.balpa.org.uk/
  Potentially as influential as al-Qaida, could assert their control of the holiday industry and help to save the planet at the same time.

• British Dietetic Association (BDA)
• http://www.bda.uk.com/
  Small, but pretty healthy union

• British Medical Association (BMA)
• http://www.bma.org.uk/
  Doctors union, selective treatment for certain people is a weapon quite unique to this crew.

• Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECT
• http://www.bectu.org.uk
  Carefully planned strikes could bring down the entire government propaganda programme and also rid our TV sets of makeover, reality and celebrity programmes. Go BECTU, Go!

• BSU
• http://www.britanniasu.org.uk/
  finance sector union representing staff working in Britannia Building Society

• CATU
• http://www.catu.org.uk/
  Representing the workers of the ceramics industry

• CDNA
• http://www.cdna.tvu.ac.uk/
  Community and district nurses of the UK, Unite!

• Communication Workers Union (CWU)
• http://www.cwu.org/
  Big, radical, posties and telecoms workers union. Leading in it's relationship with anti-racist and anti-capitalist organisations.

• CONNECT
• http://www.connectuk.org
  Formerly Society of Telecoms Excutives. Should be able to help take control of the communications networks of the country.

• Connect
• http://www.connectuk.org/
  Formerly the STE, organising workers in telecommunications, information technology and the like.

• CSP
• http://www.csp.org.uk/
  chartered physiotherapists,physiotherapy students and assistants

• CYWU
• http://www.cywu.org.uk/index.shtml
  Not a welsh union, but one for the all the youth workers, workers in youth theatre, community education, outdoor education, play and personal advisers/mentors.

• Equity (actors union)
• http://www.equity.org.uk/
  Equity, powerful on influence, could stop soap opears from happening and ruin the advertising industry. Luvvies of the world, unite, darling.

• FDA
• http://www.fda.org.uk:80/Resource.phx/content/public/index.htx
  highhest paid types in civil service, public bodies and NHS

• Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
• http://www.fbu.org.uk/c
  Fire Brigades Union. Extremely popular, very influential, didn't go hard enough for their proper £30k pay award and failed, try again Andy Gilchrist!

• General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU)
• http://www.gftu.org.uk
  Federation of specialist unions, could do with resurrecting it's old role of inter-union strike fund support as well.

• GMB
• http://www.gmb.org.uk/
  GMB stands for General, Municipal and Boilermakers Union, but not many boilermakers left. If you don't know which union to join, try this one!

• HCSA
• http://www.hcsa.com/
  Hospital consultants and the like

• ISTC
• http://www.istc-tu.org/
  ISTC

• KFAT, the Knitwear and Footwear Workers Union
• http://www.kfat.org.uk/
  Clothing manufacture workers union, more than half it's members female, battling sweatshoip conditions and the 'outsourcing' of jobs to Indonesia, India and other less-developed countries.

• Labour Net UK
• http://www.labournet.net/default.asp
  Lots of information about trade union and workers' struggles, including international coverage

• Musicians Union
• http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/
  From buskers down to rock super stars, from orchestras to boy bands, musical resistance and protection of musicians jobs and rights right here.

• NAPO
• http://www.napo.org.uk/
  Probation officers, one strike and who knows how much mayhem could be unleashed?

• NASUWT
• http://www.teachersunion.org.uk/homepage.asp?NodeID=42710
  Teachers, the union for those who prefer to toe the line.

• NATFHE
• http://www.natfhe.org.uk/
  College lecturers - now it's full of short, flexibkle contract people with as much job security as the latest manager of Chelsea.

• National Union of Marine Aviation and Shipping Transport Officer
• http://www.numast.org/
  Could do with getting a touch more like the French counterparts, nothing wrong with the odd harbour blockade.

• National Union of Teachers (NUT)
• http://www.teachers.org.uk/index.php
  Teachers, some of the most popular strikers in the country, with a very young fan base.

• Nationwide Group Staff Union (NGSU)
• http://www.ngsu.org.uk/
  If the Abbey are having one, then so's the Nationwide. Insulated unions, maybe think they can stop a cross bank stoppage, but this idea doesn't really work when things are really taking off.

• NUJ
• http://www.nuj.org.uk/front/index.php
  m 14,151 f 9,191 total 23,342 main trades and industries journalists Gen sec Jeremy Dear President George MacIntyre Annual conference 25-29 March 2004, Liverpool

• POA
• http://www.poauk.org.uk/
  Screws against oppression, and other penal system workers as well.

• Professional Footballers Association (PFA)
• http://www.givemefootball.com/
  A strike from this lot and my team might not get relegated...

• Prospect
• http://www.prospect.org.uk/index.php
  m 86,119f 19,361 total 105,480 main trades and industries engineering, scientific, managerial & professional staff in agriculture, defence, electricity supply, energy, environment, health & safety, heritage, industry, law & order, shipbuilding and transport.

• Public and Civil Service Union (PCS)
• http://www.pcs.org.uk/MainPage.asp?NodeID=20427
  Active and getting more militant union of civil servants. Needed now Gordon Brown has decided 40,000 of them are surplus to requirement.

• Rail, Maritime and transport Union (RMT)
• http://www.rmt.org.uk/
  Good union organisation makes fearful headlines in the Mail and Evening Standard. Leader Bob Crow one of the most respected and uncompromising representatives in the movement.

• SOR
• http://www.sor.org/
  SOR

• SPC
• http://www.members.feetforlife.org/accessdenied/members.html
  spc

• The Bakers Union (BFAWU)
• http://www.bfawu.org/
  Bakers, Food and allied workers. Never more than 45 minutes from a doughnut crisis

• The Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB)
• http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/index.html
  Writers Guild, hopefully their action goes beyond a stiff letter to the relevant MP

• Transport and General Workers Union (T&GWU)
• http://www.tgwu.org.uk/homepage.asp?NodeID=88397
  Second biggest in the country, not the best organised outside of the big workplaces

• TSSA
• http://www.tssa.org.uk/
  m 212,255 f 10,090 total 32,345 (excludes members in the Republic of Ireland ) main trades and industries administrative, clerical, supervisory, managerial, professional and technical employees of railways, London Underground, buses, road haulage, ports and shipping.

• UCATT
• http://www.ucatt.org.uk/
  These are the folks that could stop the constuction of office blocks across the country. Much needed union in one of the most dangerous industries there is.

• UNISON
• http://www.unison.org.uk/
  Biggest Union in Britain, pretty lively in parts, especially hospitals and local councils.

• USDAW
• http://www.usdaw.org.uk/
  The people with real power to introduce a Buy Nothing Day

• XPDNC
• http://www.xpdnc.com/index.html
  Many links to labour and socialist groups worldwide (the name is supposed to sound like "expediency" - clever, huh?)