Trade unions

Full Name Short Name Notes
Professional Footballers Association PFA
Public and Commercial Services Union PCS
Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union PWCOU
Radio Officers' Union ROU Renamed the Radio and Electronic Officers' Union in 1967.
Railway Clerks' Association RCA Renamed in 1899 from the National Association of General Railway Clerks. In 1951 became the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association,
Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association SHMA In 1908, renamed from the Scottish Carters' Association. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1971.
Scottish Miners' Federation SMF Formed in 1894. Renamed National Union of Scottish Mineworkers in 1914.
Scottish Painters Society SPS
Scottish Prison Officers' Association SPOA
Scottish Union of Power-Loom Overlookers SUPLO
Ship Constructors and Shipwrights' Association SCSA
Shop Assistants' Union SAU Formed in 1898. Also known as National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks. In 1946, merged with the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers to form the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.
Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists SCP
Society of Civil Servants SCS
Society of Graphical and Allied Trades SOGAT merged with NGA in 1991 to form GPMU
Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers and Engravers SLADE
Society of Radiographers SoR
South Wales Miners' Federation SWMF
Staff Tutors' Association STA
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain WGGB
Transport and General Workers Union TGWU
Transport Salaried Staffs' Association TSSA Formed in 1951. Formerly known as the Railway Clerks' Association.
Typographical Association TA
Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru UCAC
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians UCATT