SNP Trade Union Group

Affiliated organisation of the Scottish National Party

Scotland

Members

16,500 (2016)^[3]AffiliationsScottish National Party

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.

References

^ Brand, Jack (1978). National Movement in Scotland (2021 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781000434538.
^ Lynch, Peter (2002). SNP the history of the Scottish National Party. Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press. p. 133. ISBN 9781860570049.
^ Meeting of the Parliament 26 January 2016. Scottish Parliament (Report). 26 January 2016. p. 44.
^ Mitchell, James; Bennie, Lynn; Johns, Rob (2012). The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power. OUP Oxford. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-19-958000-2.
^ Pickard, Jim (20 April 2015). "Ed Miliband makes plea for votes of Scottish trade unionists". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
^ Young, Gregor (12 October 2021). "Study could see whisky deliver £1bn for Scots economy". The National. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
^ Lynch, Peter (2016). "From Social Democracy back to No Ideology? The Scottish National Party and Ideological Change in a Multi-level Electoral Setting". In Hepburn, Eve (ed.). New challenges for stateless nationalist and regionalist parties. London: Routledge. pp. 138–156. ISBN 9781138977013.
^ Davidson, Neil (July 2015). "Sunrise on the Scottish Left". jacobinmag.com.