Unison is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom. Its members work predominantly in public services, including local government, education, health and outsourced services.
Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.
Jacinta Mary Ann Collins is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1995 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2019. She represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was the party's deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2013. Collins was a parliamentary secretary in the Gillard government and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing in the second Rudd government. She retired from politics prior to the 2019 federal election and accepted an appointment as national executive director of the National Catholic Education Commission on 18 February 2019.
Arthur Moyle, Baron Moyle, CBE was a British bricklayer, trade union official and politician. As a member of parliament for nineteen years, he was principally known for serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee during Attlee's Premiership. He was also perennially lucky in the ballot for Private Member's Bills.
The Hospital and Welfare Services Union (HWSU) was established in 1918 as the Poor Law Workers Trade Union. It recruited from all ranks in the poor law service. Within a year it claimed 10,000 members.
George Gibson CH was a British mental hospital attendant, trade unionist and public servant who was General Secretary of the National Asylum Workers' Union, later renamed the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union, from 1913 to 1947, then of the Confederation of Health Service Employees, into which the previous union merged, from 1947 to 1948. He was ruined through his largely innocent association with the fraudster Sidney Stanley, which was exposed by the Lynskey Tribunal in 1948.
Christine Mary Robertson is an Australian politician and former Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving from 2003 until her retirement in 2011.
The Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) was a United Kingdom trade union representing workers primarily in the National Health Service.
Alexander Harper Kitson was a British trade unionist and Labour Party official.
Claude Bartlett was a British trade union leader.
Charles Henry Urwin was a British trade unionist.
Ernest Albert George Spanswick was a British trade unionist.
James Edwin Williams was a British trade unionist.
Edward Haigh was a British trade unionist.
Lawrence Joseph Smith OBE was a British trade union leader.
Benjamin Barnett Rubner was a British trade unionist.
Terence Anthony Casey was a British trade union leader.
Colm Sean O'Kane was a trade unionist from Northern Ireland.
Francis Joseph Lynch was a British trade union leader and politician.
Clifford Frank Comer was a British trade unionist.
