General Federation of Trade Unions

About Us

  • the GFTU is the federation for specialist unions  
  • there are 32 affiliates with some 219,000 members
  • we provide a range of support and services for affiliates - including education, research, health & safety, IT & Comms,and project management
  • the ruling policy body is the biennial conference or general council meeting (gcm)
  • gcm elects the Executive Committee to oversee policy and work of the GFTU between conferences 
  • the work of the GFTU is carried out by the General Secretary Mike Bradley and the staff at GFTU HQ
     
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