Transport and General Workers' Union


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Transport and General Workers' Union

the UK's third largest TRADE UNION with some 870,000 members in a large number of industries. For many years it was the UK's largest trade union and at its peak had nearly two million members.
Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson
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The Transport and General Workers' Union's Liverpool headquarters is to be named after Jack Jones; Mr Jones with ex-PM Jim Callaghan and the TUC's Stan Pemberton; and, right , the TGWU building
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Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union at factories in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, and Newport Pagnell, in Buckinghamshire, were walking out just before noon and will remain on strike throughout tomorrow.
TUC general secretary elect Brendan Barber,TUC president Nigel De Gruchy, Transport and General Workers' union general secretary Bill Morris and Prison Officers' Association general secretary Brian Caton will be among speakers at a rally in Trafalgar Square.
Next month, three unions - Unison, the General Municipal and Boilermakers' Union and Transport and General Workers' Union - are staging a joint strike ballot of local authority employees over a three per cent pay offer.
The Transport and General Workers' Union has announced the creation of a T&G Organising Academy, dedicated to improving trade union representation in the workplace.
Leading trade unionists from the Rural, Agricultural and Allied Workers section of the Transport and General Workers' Union will pay respects to Joseph Arch on Sunday, June 8.
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