Merseyside is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north,Greater Manchester to the east,Cheshire to the south,the Welsh county of Flintshire across the Dee Estuary to the southwest,and the Irish Sea to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Liverpool.
Ellesmere Port is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire,England. Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula,six miles north of Chester,on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. Ellesmere Port also forms part of the wider Birkenhead urban area,which had a population of 325,264 in 2011.
The M53 is an 18.9-mile-long (30.4 km) motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral,Merseyside and the borough of Cheshire West and Chester,Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula in England. It is also referred to as the Mid Wirral Motorway. It runs between the Kingsway Tunnel,at Wallasey in the north,and the A55 at Chester.
The Transport and General Workers' Union was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland—where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU)—with 900,000 members.
Dame Angela Eagle DBE is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since 1992. Eagle has served as Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum since July 2024.
Liscard is an area of the town of Wallasey,in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral,Merseyside,England. The most centrally located of Wallasey's townships,it is the main shopping area of the town,with many shops located in the Cherry Tree Shopping Centre. At the 2001 census the population of Liscard local government ward was recorded at 14,301,increasing to 15,574 at the 2011 census.
Merseytravel is the passenger transport executive,responsible for the coordination of public transport in the Liverpool City Region in North West England. Merseytravel was established on 1 December 1969 as the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive. From 1 April 2014,with the creation of the Liverpool City Region,Merseytravel expanded its area of operation from the metropolitan county of Merseyside to also include the Borough of Halton.
The Wirral Peninsula,known locally as the Wirral,is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide,and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west,the Mersey Estuary to the east,and Liverpool Bay to the north.
Wirral West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Matthew Patrick of the Labour Party since 2024.
Wallasey is a constituency in Merseyside created in 1918 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1992 by Angela Eagle,a member of the Labour Party.
The Association of Scientific,Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988.
James Larkin Jones,known as Jack Jones,was a British trade union leader and General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
The Union of Construction,Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) was a British and Irish trade union,operating in the construction industry. It was founded in 1971,and merged into Unite on 1 January 2017.
Wirral was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983,elected by the first past the post voting system.
Leonard David McCluskey is a British trade unionist. He was General Secretary of Unite the Union,the largest affiliate and a major donor to the Labour Party. As a young adult,he spent some years working in the Liverpool Docks for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company prior to becoming a full-time union official for the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&GWU) in 1979.
Amicus was the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union,and the largest private sector union,formed by the merger of Manufacturing Science and Finance and the AEEU,agreed in 2001,and two smaller unions,UNIFI and the GPMU. Amicus also organised in both parts of Ireland and was affiliated to the UK Trades Union Congress,the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
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 and other sectors. The general secretary of Unite is Sharon Graham,who was elected on 25 August 2021 with 46,696 votes on a turnout of 124,127,with her term beginning on 26 August 2021.
Wirral Council,or Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside,England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority since 2014.
Walter Greendale was a British trade unionist and politician.
