Battersea and Wandsworth TUC is a Trades Union Council (also known as a

Trades Council A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, region, or provincial or ...

) covering the London Borough of Wandsworth in South West London. It is one of the best organised and resourced TUCs in the UK thanks to its trading arm BWTUC (Trading) Ltd which runs the

Workers Beer Company The Workers Beer Company (WBC) is a trading arm of the Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council (BWTUC) and is a British-Irish business that provides mass catering to bars at music festivals in the UK and Ireland. The WBC was set up by and ...

and a range of other commercial enterprises to raise money in an ethical way that can then be spent on the activities of the BWTUC. The Trades Union Council owns an organising centre in

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and employs 3 full-time staff. Its organising and campaigning priorities are determined by the TUC's General Council (composed of delegates from over 50 affiliated Trade Union Branches) and Executive Committee, elected annually by those delegates. Currently BWTUC is engaged in campaigns to recruit and organise for trade unions like the GMB and

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throughout South West London and is also working with organisations like

The Fairtrade Foundation The Fairtrade Foundation is a charity based in the United Kingdom that aims to empower disadvantaged producers in developing countries by tackling injustice in conventional trade, in particular by promoting and licensing the Fairtrade Mark, a gu ...

and Banana Link.

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Battersea and Wandsworth TUC

Workers Beer Company
Trades councils Battersea London Borough of Wandsworth Political organisations based in London