SNP Trade Union Group explained

SNP Trade Union Group
Location Country:Scotland
Affiliation:Scottish National Party
Members:16,500 (2016)[1]
Founded:2014 (1965[2] or 1967/68[3])

The SNP Trade Union Group (TUG) is a constituent structure and the largest affiliated organisation of the Scottish National Party (SNP).[4] [5] [6] Formed in the mid to late 1960s as the Association of Scottish Nationalist Trade Unionists (ASNTU), the original goals of the organisation were to recruit members to the SNP in the trade union movement and attract Labour-voting trade unionists to Scottish independence.[7] Refounded as the TUG in 2014 in the lead up to the independence referendum, membership grew from 800 in September of that year to 16,000 by July 2015.[8]

Representation in the SNP

The TUG is allowed to send delegates to the SNP's annual National Conference and to National Council meetings, and has one representative on the party's National Executive Committee.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Meeting of the Parliament 26 January 2016 . 26 January 2016 . 44. Scottish Parliament.
  2. Book: Brand . Jack . National Movement in Scotland . 1978 . Routledge . 9781000434538 . 2021.
  3. Book: Lynch . Peter . SNP the history of the Scottish National Party . 2002 . Welsh Academic Press . Cardiff . 9781860570049 . 133.
  4. Book: Mitchell . James . Bennie . Lynn . Johns . Rob . The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power . 2012 . OUP Oxford . 978-0-19-958000-2 . 40 . en.
  5. News: Pickard . Jim . Ed Miliband makes plea for votes of Scottish trade unionists . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/4dc0805c-e779-11e4-8e3f-00144feab7de . 10 December 2022 . subscription . 10 January 2022 . Financial Times . 20 April 2015.
  6. News: Young . Gregor . Study could see whisky deliver £1bn for Scots economy . 11 January 2022 . The National . 12 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220110092525/https://www.thenational.scot/news/19640391.study-see-scottish-whisky-deliver-1bn-economy/ . 10 January 2022 . en.
  7. Book: Lynch . Peter . Hepburn . Eve . New challenges for stateless nationalist and regionalist parties . 2016 . Routledge . London . 9781138977013 . 138–156 . From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Electoral Setting.
  8. News: Davidson . Neil . Sunrise on the Scottish Left . jacobinmag.com . July 2015.

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