Trades Councils




	Trades Union Councils Trades Union Councils bring together unions to work and campaign around issues affecting working people in their local workplaces and communities. Trades Union Councils aim to: raise public awareness of rights at work and the union role in enforcing those rights. promote organising and recruitment drives to build union membership. support union and community campaigns for dignity and respect in the workplace and beyond. With threats of racism and fascism, changes in the labour market and debates over the future of public services, the trade union voice in the community is as important as ever. The capacity of trades union councils to provide a local response and to organise trade unionists into coalitions with other progressive forces is crucial. They do this by providing services which keep local trade unionists up to date with developments within the wider trade union movement, and by taking up relevant local industrial and community issues. How Trades Union Councils work Trades Union Councils consist of representatives of trade unions or branches of trade unions which meet within the area covered by that council, or which have members working or living in the area. A union branch will normally affiliate to the trades union council in the area in which it meets. Each branch will then elect delegates to represent the collective view of that branch at the trades union council's meetings. These branches pay an affiliation fee. Their delegates elect officers from amongst themselves to represent the views and priorities of the constituent branches and to take responsibility for working for and supporting the policy of Congress and the TUC General Council. This is because trades union councils are registered with the TUC, rather than being entirely independent bodies. In addition, each trades union council in England is required to affiliate to its appropriate county association and its appropriate TUC Regional Council. The Annual Conference of Trades Union Councils is usually held on a weekend in May. Each trades union council is entitled to be represented at the conference by one delegate. For more details about Trades Union Councils, you can read the TUC's latest guide, Unions in the Community. Trades Union Council web links Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Union Council Barnstaple TUC Birmingham Trades Union Council Blackburn and District Trades Council Burnley Trades Union Council Brent Trades Union Council Chelmsford & District Trades Union Council Croydon Trades Union Council Greater London Association of Trades Councils Hackney Trades Union Council Halifax and District - Calderdale Harlow Trades Union Council Harrogate Trades Union Council Lancashire Association of Trades Union Councils Oldham TUC Oxford & District Trades Council Torfaen Trades Union Council West Yorkshire County Association of Trades Union Councils Wolverhampton, Bilston & District TUC All information on this Web site is copyright 2008 by Chorley Trades Council.