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  1. The General Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1899 and is a friendly democratic organisation responsive to the needs of affiliated trade unions. Like unions, we aim to improve the lives of working people and their communities.
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      The General Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1899 and is a democratic organisation responsive to the needs of affiliated trade unions. Like unions, we aim to improve the lives of working people and their communities. Our federation of trade unions and the Educational Trust (GFTUET) offers a range of support from; an exceptional ...

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      The GFTU has developed a comprehensive range of support services to help unions save money, be more effective and sustainable, whilst generating income for the GFTU's Educational Trust, to provide more trade union education and support services. ... Independent scrutineer and provider of elections and ballots for Trade Unions; offering print ...

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    • Our History

      The General Federation of Trade Unions was established at a special Congress of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) held in 1899. The principal objective was to set up a national organisation with a strike fund which could be drawn upon by affiliated trade unions. This was to particularly ensure that engineering and industrial workers would not be ...

  2. Many of the new unions formed during that period were committed to the socialist transformation of society and were critical of the conservatism of the craft unions. The debate revolved around concept of building "one-big-union" which would have the resources to embark on a militant course of action and even change society.
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    The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions". In the 1890s, the development of socialist organisations and socialist thinking also found expression in the British trade union movement. Many of the new unions formed ...
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    This is a list of trade unions in the United Kingdom formed under UK labour law. The criteria for being an independent trade union, free from employer influence and domination, are set out in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 section 5. The body which oversees unions, and awards a certificate of independence for the purpose of collective bargaining is the Trades ...
  6. en.wikipedia.org

    This is a list of federations of trade unions currently in existence. Those federations listed under each country are also known as national trade union centres and are organizations formed by trade unions which operate, in most cases, at the national level. The organizations listed in the worldwide section are industry/sectoral-specific (i.e. the GUFs) and international organizations ...
  7. britannica.com

    Other articles where General Federation of Trade Unions is discussed: Trades Union Congress: …two new separate bodies: the General Federation of Trade Unions, founded in 1899 as an insurance fund for strikes, and the Labour Representation Committee, founded in 1900 and in 1906 renamed the Labour Party. The latter sponsored candidates for Parliament until after 1918, when it became a national ...
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  9. UNISON is one of the largest trade unions in the United Kingdom. UNISON members are people working in the public services, for private contractors providing public services and in the essential utilities. They include frontline staff and managers working full or part time in local authorities, the National Health Service (NHS), the police service, colleges and schools, the electricity, gas and ...
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    The General Federation of Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions". Wikipedia

    Full nameGeneral Federation of Trade Unions
    Founded1899
    Members214,000
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