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Unite the Union, commonly known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union which was formed on 1 May 2007 by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). Along with Unison , Unite is one of the two largest trade unions in the UK, with over 1.2 million members in construction, manufacturing, transport, logistics ...
Donations typically peak before elections. Between 6 April and 6 May 2010 (a general election campaign month) the Conservatives took £7,317,602, Labour £5,283,199 and the Liberal Democrats £724,000. [11] Quarter-by-quarter aggregates of donations above reporting thresholds are available from the UK Electoral Commission.
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 ...
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Members of Unite in Coventry have been on strike for weeks in a long-running row over pay for refuse collection workers. Unite union issues funding warning over dispute with Labour-run council ...
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The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [15] [16] [7] The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [17] It is one of the two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party.
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