• Source: Labour Party (UK) affiliated trade union

In British politics, an affiliated trade union is one that is linked to the Labour Party. The party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee and the unions have retained close institutional links with it.
Affiliated unions pay an annual fee to the Labour Party; in return, they elect thirteen of the thirty-nine members of Labour's National Executive Committee and fifty per cent of the delegates to Labour Party Conference. Local union branches also affiliate to Constituency Labour Parties and their members who are also individual members of the Party may represent the union as delegates on Labour Party structures.
Individual members may opt out of paying into a union's political fund which is used to finance the affiliation.
Since 1994, affiliated trade unions have organised themselves into TULO - The Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation, with a small number of staff to manage the relationship between the unions and the Party. A national TULO committee, with the unions' general secretaries, the Party Leader and Deputy Leader, General Secretary and NEC Chair and MPs' representatives, meets regularly to co-ordinate work and policy.
Until 1995, each union exercised a block vote at party conferences; since then, multiple delegates of a single union get an equal share of its voting allocation.




Affiliated unions


As of October 2021, the trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party are:

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF)
Community (formerly KFAT & ISTC)
Communication Workers Union (CWU)
Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
GMB
Musicians Union (MU)
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA)
UNISON (The Public Services Union)
Unite (general workers in public and private sectors)
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)
The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) represents its members, seven of the smaller unions, on many of the committees if they cannot send a delegate. In 2015, Unity merged into the GMB. In January 2017, the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) merged with Prospect, a trade union that represents certain grades in the civil service and other professionals. Because Prospect represents civil servants, they are politically neutral and so BECTU disaffiliated from the Labour Party as a condition of the merger. In January 2017, the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) merged into Unite.




Former affiliates


During Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers and Fire Brigades Union severed their links. However, the Fire Brigades Union re-affiliated to the Labour Party in November 2015. In September 2021 the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union, one of the founding unions of the party, announced its disaffiliation from the party, citing dissatisfaction with Keir Starmer's leadership.
Formerly, there were many more small trade unions in the UK, and many of them affiliated to the Labour Party. In 1946, the affiliates were:

Amalgamated Engineering Union
Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Felt Hatters
Amalgamated Society of Shuttlemakers
Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades
Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers of Great Britain and Ireland
Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers
Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers
Associated Blacksmiths', Forge and Smithy Workers' Society
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Association of Cine-Technicians
Association of Correctors of the Press
Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen
Boilermakers' and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Society
Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coal Trimmers' Union
Confederation of Health Service Employees
Constructional Engineering Union
Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union
Electrical Trades Union
Enginemen and Firemen's Union
Fire Brigades' Union
General Iron Fitters' Association
Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
Ironfounding Workers' Association
London Society of Compositors
National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades' Association
National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers
National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks
National Association of Operative Plasterers
National Cutlery Union
National League of the Blind
National Society of Coppersmiths, Braziers and Metal Workers
National Society of Metal Mechanics
National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants
National Society of Painters
National Society of Pottery Workers
National Union of Agricultural Workers
National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades
National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives
National Union of Cigarette Makers and Tobacco Workers
National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers
National Union of Electrotypers and Stereotypers
National Union of Foundry Workers
National Union of General and Municipal Workers
National Union of Gold, Silver and Allied Trades
National Union of Mineworkers
National Union of Public Employees
National Union of Railwaymen
National Union of Seamen
National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers
National Union of Stove, Grate, and General Metal Workers
National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
National Union of Vehicle Builders
National Woolsorters' Society
Power Loom Carpet Weavers' and Textile Workers' Association
Prudential Staff Union
Railway Clerks' Association
Scottish Painters' Society
Scottish Union of Bakers and Confectioners
Ship Constructors' and Shipwrights' Association
Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers
Transport and General Workers' Union
Typographical Association
United French Polishers' Society
United Patternmakers' Association
United Textile Factory Workers' Association
Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union
Yorkshire Warptwisters' Society




See also


Trades Union Congress
Political funding in the United Kingdom
Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation
Socialist society (Labour Party)




References






External links


TULO - Unions Together

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• List of trade unions in the United Kingdom
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