Who we are and what we do

Trade unions are groups of working people who join together to defend and improve conditions at work. Trade unions represent members in the workplace, and also campaign to defend working people’s right to live decent and dignified lives, inside work and outside of it.

The Labour Party is a partnership of working people, bringing together affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and Labour Party members. The union link means that trade unions are an integral part of the Labour Party, and that we have a say in the Labour Party’s democratic decision making at every level, from local constituency parties, to Annual Conference, to the governing National Executive Committee.

Trade unions use their voice in the Party to push for policies that will transform the lives of working people for the better.

Adrian Weir is Hornsey & Wood Green CLP’s Labour Unions Officer, you can contact him here.

Follow Adrian on twitter here 

Join Your Union

All the evidence shows that having a union at your workplace means that will have safer workplace. Responding to the coronavirus crisis with some workers being encouraged to return to their place of work – of course many thousands of workers never left their workplace in the first instance – Labour led Haringey Council in partnership with the TUC are campaigning for all workers to join a union and to make sure that there are safe workplaces for all.

The button below opens the Trade Union Congress (TUC) trade union finder where you can discover which trade union represents you.

The Unions

There are twelve trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party at national level but not all are represented in Hornsey & Wood Green CLP. Our affiliated unions are:

• Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) – representing workers in post, telecommunications and financial services Contact here or call 020 7336 8371
• Community – representing workers across the economy, including steel, betting, manufacturing, logistics, justice services, charities, finance, disabled workers and the self-employed Contact here or call 020 7420 4000
• GMB – representing general workers in public and private sectors Contact here or call 020 8202 8272
• Unison – representing staff who provide public services, employed in both the public and private sectors; members work in local government, health care, colleges and schools, the police service and the voluntary sector, transport, electricity, gas and water industries Contact here or call 0800 0 857 857
• Unite – representing workers in all sectors of our economy, covering both the public and private sectors; Unite also organises a “community branch” for those who are unemployed Contact here or call 020 8800 4281
• Union of Shop, Distributive & Allied Workers (USDAW) – representing workers in the retail, distributive and related industries Contact here or call 020 7323 5550

We would of course welcome local affiliations from unions organising in railways, food, the fire brigade and the music industry to also join us.