The SNP Trade Union Group (TUG) is a constituent structure and the largest affiliated organisation of the

Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party (SNP; ) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party. The party holds 61 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, and holds 9 out of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, ...

(SNP). 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

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. Refounded as the TUG in 2014 in the lead up to the

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, membership grew from 800 in September of that year to 16,000 by July 2015.

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

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Representation in the SNP

See also

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