Unions affiliated to the TUC for 2015 are as follows:
Accord
- The union for all employees working for the Lloyds Banking Group
Advance
- The union for all staff in Satander
Aegis
- Aegis represents staff at Aegon UK – part of the international finance group that provides pensions, life insurance and investment products
AEP
- The trade union and professional association for educational psychologists in the United Kingdom
AFA-CWA
- The union for all staff in Satander
ASLEF
- Britain’s trade union for train drivers.
ATL
- The union for education professionals across the UK
BALPA
- The professional association and trade union established representing the interests of UK pilots
BDA
- The professional association and trade union for dietitians
BECTU
- The UK’s media and entertainment trade union; sectors covered include broadcasting, film, independent production, theatre and the arts, leisure and digital media.
BFAWU
- Union representing workers in the food and allied industries & trades
BOS TU
- The TUC-affiliated part of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS), which represents orthoptists in the UK and Ireland
BSU
- Trade union representing employees of the Co-Operative Banking Group
Community
- Union representing members and their families in all industries and sectors within the UK, from steel & wire to footwear & textiles; from social care to betting shops; from NSPCC to the National League of Blind & Disabled; and from logistics & distribution to the football league.
CSP
- Provides a wide range of member services and campaign on behalf of all physiotherapy staff and the physiotherapy profession
CWU
- Union for the communications industry in the UK, representing members in postal, telecom, mobile, administrative and financial companies.
EIS
- The largest teaching union in Scotland.
EQUITY
- The UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners
FBU
- The voice of firefighters and the fire and rescue service in the UK
FDA
- The union for senior public sector managers and professionals
GMB
- The general union to which anyone can belong
HCSA
- Trade union representing and advising senior hospital medical staff in the UK in both the NHS and private sectors.
Musicians’ Union
- An organisation of over 30,000 musicians working in all sectors of the music business
NACO
- A trade union that work to advise, support and represent members throughout their working lives in co-operatives throughout the UK
NACODS
- An independent trade union representing people in the mining industry.
NAHT
- NAHT is an independent trade union and professional association representing over 28,500 members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Members hold leadership positions in education.
Napo
- A trade union representing probation and family court staff throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
NASS
- Trade union representing stable staff on a number of racing industry committees and negotiates the rates of pay and conditions of service of stable staff with the National Trainers Federation.
NASUWT
- Teachers’ union.
Nautilus International
- The union for maritime professionals at sea and ashore.
NGSU
- Representing the views of employees of Nationwide Building Society (including the Cheshire, Derbyshire and Dunfermline Building Societies).
NUJ
- The trade union for journalists and journalism in the UK & Ireland.
NUM
- Trade union representing miners, their families and their communities
NUT
- Teachers’ union.
PCS
- Trade union organised throughout the civil service and government agencies as well as organised widely in the private sector, usually in areas that have been privatised.
PFA
- Union working protect, improve and negotiate the conditions, rights and status of all professional football players by collective bargaining agreements.
POA
- The professional trade union for prison, correctional and secure psychiatric workers.
Prospect
- Trade union representing engineers, scientists, managers and specialists in areas as diverse as agriculture, defence, energy, environment, heritage, shipbuilding, telecoms and transport.
RMT
- Trade union representing members from almost every sector of the transport industry – from the mainline and underground railways, shipping and offshore, buses and road freight.
SCP
- The professional body and trade union for registered podiatrists.
SoR
- The trade union and professional body for radiographers and all non-medical members of the workforce in diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy.
Staff Union West Bromwich Building Society
- The Staff Union West Bromwich Building Society (US) exists as an Independent Trade Union to represent the interests of all its members individually or collectively through negotiation and consultation.
TSSA
- Trade union representing administrative, managerial, professional and technical workers in the railway, London Underground, the travel trade, ports and ferries.
UCAC
- Education union for teachers, head-teachers and lecturers in Wales.
UCATT
- Trade union specialising in construction.
UCU
- Union representing academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, administrators, managers, computer staff, librarians and postgraduates from universities, colleges, prisons, adult education or training organisations.
UNISON
- Trade union representing full-time and part-time staff who provide public services in both the public and private sectors.
Unite
- General union representing workers across the country and all industrial sectors.
URTU
- Road haulage trade union.
USDAW
- Trade union organising and representing workers in the retail, distributive, manufacturing and service sectors.
WGGB
- Union supporting writers across media including books, film, online, radio, theatre, TV and videogames.
Branches affiliate by sending the Secretary a completed affiliation form, and sending the appropriate affiliation fee to the Treasurer.