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Labour Representation Committee. Since then, the unions have retained close institutional links with the Party. During Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party the RMT and Fire Brigades Union severed their links. However the Fire Brigades Union re-affiliated to the Labour Party in November 2015.^[1]

The nature of affiliation means that the unions pay an annual fee to the Labour Party; in return, they and their members receive the privileges of affiliated membership. Unions select twelve of the thirty-two members of the Labour

Constituency Labour Parties

and their members who are also individual members of the Party may represent the Union as delegates on Labour Party structures.

Members of the unions may opt out of the affiliation, so that the member is not allowed to take part in any Labour Party ballots (such as the leadership election) in which other members of the affiliated union are involved.

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.

Affiliated unions

As of April 2017, the trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party are:[2]

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF)
Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union
(BFAWU)
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

Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) merged with Prospect, a trade union that represents Civil Servants 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, Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians

(UCATT) merged into Unite.

References

^ "FBU in historic affiliation to Labour | Fire Brigades Union". www.fbu.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
^ "Unions Together". www.unionstogether.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-06.

External links

TULO - Unions Together

[1] "FBU in historic affiliation to Labour | Fire Brigades Union". www.fbu.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-05.

[2] "Unions Together". www.unionstogether.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-06.

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 *[[Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers]] (USDAW)
-The [[General Federation of Trade Unions (UK)|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 January 2017, the [[Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union]] (BECTU) merged with [[Prospect (trade union)|Prospect]], a trade union that represents [[Civil service|Civil Servants]] 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.
+The [[General Federation of Trade Unions (UK)|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 (trade union)|Unity]] merged into the GMB. In January 2017, the [[Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union]] (BECTU) merged with [[Prospect (trade union)|Prospect]], a trade union that represents [[Civil service|Civil Servants]] 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, [[Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians]] (UCATT) merged into Unite.
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