TUC Equality Audit 2020-2021

Changes since 2016 Audit

There have been a number of mergers of TUC-affiliated unions since the last equivalent audit in 2016.

The NEU has been formed from the coming together of the NUT and ATL.

Since the last audit Prospect has merged with BECTU and SUWBBS, UCATT and BSU have merged with Unite and NACO has merged with Usdaw.

Since the previous audit in 2016, NASS has changed its name to NARS; and the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (SCP) has become the College of Podiatry.

NACODS deregistered as a trade union and disaffiliated from the TUC since the last audit.
The 2020 respondents includes the AUE and the NHBC Staff Association, which were not TUC affiliates when the 2016 audit was conducted.

Other changes since 2016 have no bearing on this analysis due to non-responses.

Data analysis

The percentages of unions quoted in this report are generally of the total number of unions responding to the audit. In some cases, analysis has also been carried out according to union size. The aim of this approach is to acknowledge that different-sized unions have different capacities to collectively bargain, produce guidance and training and focus on different areas.

For such analysis, the unions responding have been grouped into three size categories corresponding to the TUC rules on the composition of the General Council. 5 In this report they are described as either ‘large’ (section A unions), ‘medium-sized’ (section B unions) or ‘small’ (section C unions).

The large unions that responded to the audit are: GMB, NASUWT, NEU, UNISON, Unite and Usdaw.

The medium-sized unions that responded to the audit are: Community, CWU, EIS, Equity, FBU, MU, NAHT, NUJ, PCS, POA, Prospect, RCM, RMT and UCU.

The small unions that responded to the audit are: Accord, Aegis, ASLEF, AUE, BALPA, CoP, FDA, Napo, NARS, NGSU, NHBC Staff Association, NUM, PFA, SoR, TSSA and UCAC

Appendix

Unions who responded to the 2020 TUC Equality Audit

The following unions participated in the 2020 TUC Equality Audit. Membership figures are as at January 2020 and as supplied to the TUC.

The following unions did not participate in the 2020 TUC Equality Audit. Membership figures are as January 2020 and as supplied to the TUC.

• 5 Section A shall consist of members from those organisations with a full numerical membership of 200,000 or more members. Each such organisation shall be entitled to nominate one or more of its members to be a member or members of the General Council and the number of members to which the organisations comprising Section A shall be entitled shall be determined by their full numerical membership on the basis of one per 200,000 members or part thereof provided that where the total number of women members of any organisation in Section A is 100,000 or more that organisation shall nominate at least one woman. Section B shall consist of members from those organisations with a full numerical membership of 30,000 up to 199,999 members. Each such organisation shall be entitled to nominate one of its members to be a member of Section B of the General Council. Section C shall consist of seven members of unions with
  fewer than 30,000 members.”