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The Trades Union Congress is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions that collectively represent most unionised workers in England and Wales. There are 48 affiliated unions with a
George Potter (trade unionist)
…Samuel Morley (a Liberal MP) and Daniel Platt bought up shares in the newspaper in June 1868. In March 1871 Potter was elected first President of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and made chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Trade Unions. He also joined (along with Applegarth and Howell) the Working Men's Committee…
Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the 1926 general strike
Make Poverty History banner in front of Congress House