This meeting notes that:

• Trades Union Councils (TUCs) are the regional structures of the Trades Union Congress, whereby each trades union council is made up of affiliated union branches in local areas. They are described by the TUC as:
  'union bodies in local communities, made up of representatives from different organisations, who meet together regularly to promote union values at a local level. They run campaigns and initiatives to draw attention to issues affecting regional economies, industries and enterprises, and lobby locally for a better deal for working people.'

• Unions are encouraged by the TUC to affiliate to their local trades union council.
• In the past, union branches affiliated to their local trades union councils as a matter of course, but over the last 20 years the trades councils have not been as active as they once were.
• The TUC has, in recent years been encouraged by the growth of trades council as local campaigning organisations
• Hackney Trades Union Council is a thriving, active and campaigning trades council with a particular commitment to challenging discrimination in all its forms and campaigning for an increase in union membership through union organising drives.
• The affiliation fees are dependent upon the number of members this union has who live or work in Hackney and that small branches pay a nominal fee of £10.

This meeting requests that this branch affiliates to Hackney Trades Union Council and that in doing so is entitled to send delegates and observers along to its monthly meetings.