§ Mr. Stanleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the organisations that have so far been granted a certificate of independence by the certification officer, stating the size of each organisation's membership and whether or not it is affiliated to the TUC.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerFollowing is the information as provided by the Certification Officer:
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General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers 3,197 Greater London Council Staff Association 19,767 Huddersfield and District Healders' and Twisters' Trade and Friendly Society 211 Inland Revenue Staff Federation 60,795 Institution of Professional Civil Servants 103,502 Iron and Steel Trades Confederation 118,142 Liverpool Victoria Section of the National Union of Insurance Workers 3,743 Managers' and Overlookers' Society 1,303 Merchant Navy and Air Line Officers Association 30,050 Musicians Union 35,984 National and Local Government Officers' Association 625,163 National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers 20,589 National Association of Co-operative Officials 5,499 National Association of Licensed House Managers 12,187 National Association of Schoolmasters and the Union of Women Teachers 59,400 National Association of Theatrical Television and Kine Employees 15,739 National Graphical Association 108,676 National League of the Blind and Disabled 5,008 National Society of Metal Mechanics 49,911 National Society of Operative Printers Graphical and Media Personnel 53,834 National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers 82,277 National Union of Bank Employees 101,922 National Union of Blast Furnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades 16,248 National Union of Domestic Appliance and General Metal Workers 5,342 National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers 54,737 National Union of Funeral Service Operatives 1,179 National Union of General and Municipal Workers 881,356 National Union of Gold, Silver and Allied Trades 3,272 National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers 70,292 National Union of Insurance Workers 25,740 National Union of Insurance Workers, Prudential Section 13,511 National Union of Insurance Workers, Refuge Section 3,420 National Union of Insurance Workers, Royal Liver and Composite Section 1,400 National Union of Insurance Workers, Royal London Section 2,076 National Union of Journalists 28,274 National Union of Lock and Metal Workers 6,648 National Union of Mineworkers 374,164 National Union of Mineworkers (Colliery Officials' and Staffs' Area) 17,950 National Union of Mineworkers (Leicestershire Area) 5,228 National Union of Mineworkers (Northumberland Mechanics Group No. 1 Area) 2,825 National Union of Mineworkers (North Western Area) 9,969 National Union of Mineworkers (Nottingham Area) 32,970 National Union of Mineworkers (Power Group Area) 5,386 National Union of Mineworkers (South Derbyshire Area) 4,774 National Union of Mineworkers (Yorkshire Area) 119,787 National Union of Public Employees 584,485 National Union of Railwaymen 180,931 National Union of Scalemakers 1,892 National Union of Seamen 45,200 National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths and Heating and Domestic Engineers 74,086 National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers 109,429 National Union of Teachers 284,893 National Union of Textiles and Allied Workers (Rochdale Districts) 2,500 National Union of the Footwear, Leather and Allied Trades 62,455 National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades 3,770 National Woolsorters' Society 779 Northern Carpet Trades Union 69 Northern Colliery Officials and Staffs Association 5,057 Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union 2,610 Oldham Provincial Union of Textile and Allied Workers 3,933 Pattern Weavers' Society 144 Post Office Engineering Union 125,216 Post Office Management Staffs Association 19,381 Power Loom Carpet Weavers' and Textile Workers' Association 6,545 Prison Officers' Association 17,485 Radio and Electronic Officers' Union 3,548 Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives 5,635 Scottish Carpet Workers Union 5,283 Scottish Union of Bakers and Allied Workers 8,780 Scottish Union of Power Loom Technicians 300 Screw, Nut, Bolt and Rivet Trade Union 2,524 Sheffield Sawmakers Protection Society 235 Society of Civil and Public Servants (Executive, Directing and Analogous Grades) 102,772 Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1975 190,473
Society of Lithographic, Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers 16,819 Society of Post Office Executives 22,589 Society of Shuttlemakers 135 South-East Lancashire and Cheshire Weavers and Winders Association 1,546 Tobacco Mechanics Association 360 Tobacco Workers' Union 21,074 Transport and General Workers' Union 1,856,165 Transport Salaried Staffs' Association 74,292 Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians 278,127 Union of Post Office Workers 185,000 Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers 377,302 Union of Jute, Flax Kindred Textile Operatives 1,700 United Road Transport Union 26,762 Writers' Guild of Great Britain 1,284 Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers 1,391 246W247W
CERTIFICATES OF INDEPENDENCE ISSUED UNDER SECTION 8 OF THE EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1975—TRADE UNIONS NOT AFFILIATED TO THE TUC AA Staff Association 4,050 Amalgamated Society of Woolcomb Hackle and Gill Makers 122 Association of Assistant Mistresses 35,861 Association of Foremen, British Aircraft Corporation Ltd. (Filton, Factory and Fairford) 203 Association of Cambridge University Assistants 967 Association of Clinical Biochemists 1,492 Association of First Division Civil Servants 6,050 Association of Community Home Schools 432 Association of Head Mistresses, Incorporated 1896 (membership figures not available). Association of Licensed Aircraft Engineers 665 Association of Local Government Engineers and Surveyors 2,334 Association of Local Authority Chief Executives 475 Association of Official Architects 570 Association of Passenger Transport Executives and Managers 115 Association of Polytechnic Teachers 2,890 Association of Professional Scientists and Technologists 8,105 Association of Public Service Finance Officers 2,933 British Aircraft & Corporation Ltd. (Guided Weapons Division) Senior Staff Association(Bristol) 765 British Association of Colliery Management 16,845 British Medical Association 67,000 Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers Association 142 Chartered Society of Physiotherapy 17,036 Clerical and Secretarial Staffs Association of the University of Liverpool 545 Executives and Managers Association of Great Britain and Ireland 1,389 Guild of Local Authority Valuers and Estate Surveyors 86 Group 1 Staff Association 864 Guild of Textile Supervisors 328 Guinness (Park Royal) Supervisory Association 70 Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association 4,811 Imperial Group Staff Association 2,622 Imperial Supervisory Association (Imperial Tobacco Ltd.) 421 Institute of Journalists 2,396 Junior Hospital Doctors Association (membership figures not available). Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers Friendly, Relief, Sick, Super-annuation and Burial Society 682 Leek and Westbourne Staff Association 802 Lloyds Bank Group Staff Association 19,676 London Society of Tie Cutters 66 Nalgo Staff Union 516 National Association of Fire Officers 3,347 National Association of Head Teachers 19,152 National Association of Probation Officers 3,713 National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade 138,646 National Federation of Club Stewards and Hotel Managers 1,481 National Owner Drivers Association (UK) 2,501 National Tile Faience and Mosaic Fixers' Society 275 National Union of Flint Glass Workers 1,975 National Westminster Staff Association 28,124 Nationwide Building Society Staff Association 1,936 Nelson and Colne District Association of Preparatory Workers 217 Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation 9,511 Professional Association of Teachers 9,632 Retail Book, Stationery and Allied Trades Employees' Association 5,807 Retired Officers Association 1,434 Scottish Carpet Workers Union 5,283
Scottish Further Education Association 1,522 Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association 7,167 Shipbuilding and Allied Industries Management Association 1,399 Society of Education Officers 977 Steel Industry Management Association 11,915 Telecommunications Staff Association 1,593 Telephone Contract Officers' Association 1,062 Thames Water Staff Association 2,021 United Friendly Agents Association 3,451 United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers 5,295 Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen 1,014 Foremen's Association of the British Aircraft Corporation Limited, Military Aircraft Division 326