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.
Kenneth Wright MacAskill is a Scottish politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian since 2019. He previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Justice from 2007 to 2014 and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2016. A former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he defected to the Alba Party in 2021 and currently serves as the party's depute leader.
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 460,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors,in retail,security,schools,distribution,the utilities,social care,the National Health Service (NHS),ambulance service and local government.
Douglas Garven Alexander is a Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire South,previously Paisley South,from 1997 until his defeat in 2015. During this time,he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,Scottish Secretary,Transport Secretary and International Development Secretary in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He subsequently served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Foreign Secretary.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) is the sixth largest trade union in the United Kingdom. Most of its members work in UK government departments and other public bodies.
William Manuel Morris,Baron Morris of Handsworth,OJ,DL is a former British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003,and the first black leader of a major British trade union.
Gregory William Hands is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea and Fulham,previously Hammersmith and Fulham,since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as its Chairman since February 2023. Hands previously served as Minister of State for Trade Policy under four prime ministers,holding the office on three occasions,and as Minister of State for Business,Energy and Clean Growth from 2021 to 2022.
Margaret Patricia Curran is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She served in the British House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2010 to 2015 and was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2011 until 2015. She was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Baillieston from 1999 to 2011,and held a number of posts within the Scottish Executive,including Minister for Parliamentary Business,Minister for Social Justice and Minister for Communities.
John Stephen Monks,Baron Monks is a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords and former trade unionist leader,who served as the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK from 1993 until 2003. He also served as the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) from 2007 until 2011,having been made a Life peer in 2010.
David Anderson is a British politician who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaydon from 2005 to 2017.
Kathryn Sloan Clark,Baroness Clark of Kilwinning,known as Katy Clark is a British politician and life peer who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran from 2005 to 2015.
John Cameron "Robbo" Robertson is a former Australian politician who served as the leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales from 2011 to 2014. Before entering politics he was prominent in the union movement.
Lisa Eva Nandy is a British Member of Parliament,Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities since 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010.
Christine Blower,Baroness Blower was the eleventh General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers,a trade union representing qualified teachers across England and Wales. In March 2018,she stood for election and was shortlisted for the position of the Labour Party's General Secretary. She is the Vice Chair of the pressure group Unite Against Fascism.
Drew Smith is a Scottish Labour politician. He was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region from 2011 to 2016,serving as Scottish Labour's frontbench spokesperson on social justice,the constitution and equalities and as Chair of the Trades Union Group of Labour MSPs.
Neil Findlay is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian from 2011 to 2021. A member of Scottish Labour,he was previously a councillor in West Lothian from 2003 to 2012.
The 2014 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader and deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party,following the resignations of Johann Lamont as leader and Anas Sarwar as deputy. Lamont announced her decision in an interview with the Daily Record on 24 October,saying that she was stepping down effective immediately because the UK Labour Party treated the Scottish party as a "branch office of London". Lamont,who had won the 2011 leadership contest,thus becoming the first Scottish leader to have authority over Labour's Scottish MPs in the House of Commons as well as in the Scottish Parliament,was the second leader of a Scottish political party to resign in the wake of the 2014 independence referendum. Before her resignation,Alex Salmond announced his intention to relinquish the role of Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and First Minister. Sarwar announced his own resignation on 30 October,saying he felt it was right for the party to elect a new leadership team.
Kevin Barry Curran is a British former trade unionist.
Paul Bristow is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough since the 2019 general election. A member of the Conservative Party,he worked as a public relations consultant and was the chairman of the lobbying trade body,the Association of Professional Political Consultants,prior to his parliamentary career. Bristow was also a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council between 2006 and 2010. Bristow controversially gave an interview to the BBC where he admits breaking lockdown to visit his father who was terminally ill.
Debbie Coulter is a British former trade union leader.
