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In March 1953, these two merged into Trade Union International of Transport, Port and Fishery Workers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It kept the latter name until at least 1978, [ 2 ] but adopted the current name by 1985. [ 3 ]
TUI AG (trading as TUI Group) is a German multinational leisure, travel and tourism company; it is the largest such company in the world. [2] [3] TUI is an acronym for Touristik Union International ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to tourism.
The union was founded at a conference in East Berlin on 29 October 1949 as the International Union of Trade Unions of Postal, Telephone and Telegraph Workers.The name was changed to the Trade Union International of Public and Allied Employees (TUI-PAE) in 1955 during a conference in Vienna, when it broadened its scope to include workers in the health, finance and public administration areas.
When the TUI began it had 22 affiliated unions. At its 1976 conference it claimed 14,862,279 members in 50 affiliated unions in 44 countries. [6] By the mid 1980s it had 70 members organizations in 61 countries representing 20 million members [7] In 1978 the following organizations were affiliated to the TUI: [8]
TUI Airways has its origins in several rival airlines. Euravia (later renamed Britannia Airways in December 1964 [6]) was founded in January 1962. [7] Orion Airways, founded in 1979 by Horizon Holidays and later owned by the large brewing firm Bass Brewery and InterContinental Hotels Group, was sold and merged with Britannia Airways in 1989 but retained the Britannia name.
RMT Credit Union Limited is a savings and loans co-operative established by the trade union for its members in 2004. [27] It is a member of UKCreditUnions Limited, a national trade association representing smaller credit unions , steering groups and support organisations. [ 28 ]
Thomson Travel Group plc was a business formed by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. It was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate, in 2000.
It was reorganized as the new Trade Union International of Energy Workers at a conference in Mexico City in 2007. [2] It shortened its name to the Trade Union International of Energy Workers in 2007, but has since lengthened it again. In 2018, the international held its third congress, in Thiruvananthapuram in India. Prasanta Nandi Chowdhury of ...