HC Deb 02 December 1976 vol 921 cc242-7W
Mr. Stanley

asked 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 Walker

Following is the information as provided by the Certification Officer:

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
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