What is the TUC?
From airline pilots to flight attendants, from college managers to teachers in further education, physiotherapists to educational psychologists, shop workers to chiropodists and professional footballers to prison officers – all these work sectors and more have their own union. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is the national organisation which represents trade unions in Britain. In total, the TUC represented 71 unions, nearly 7 million working people in 2002. Their main role is to act as a voice for working people. They promote the rights and welfare of people at work and campaign for policies which help the unemployed get back into jobs. Since they were formed in 1868, they have grown in size and stature to become Britain’s largest voluntary organisation and one of the biggest trade union centres in the world. The TUC is now one of the best known institutions in British public life.
