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2 unusual facts about Chalmers Students' Union


Chalmers Students' Union

Before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China from the United Kingdom in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British Prime Minister asking if they could hire the whole of Hong Kong for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.

The Cortège

The next year, the Chalmers Students' Union decided to organize a parade of student culture jokes.


Aberystwyth University Students' Union

The predecessor to the Union, the Aberystwyth Student Representative Council, was founded in 1900 by Herbert John Fleure, who later went to become a lecturer in botany, geology and zoology at the university.

Abu-Abdullah Adelabu

As a delegate of the African Students Union and general secretary of the West African Students' Union in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, Adelabu visited prisons and hospitals during the time when over 10,000 African migrants had been killed, jailed, or wounded in their adventures to reach the Middle-East, many for sanctuary and others to get to Europe for what they had expected to be a better life.

Albert Benschop

In 1972 he made name as leader of the SRVU Students' union of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who occupied the main building of the Vrije Universiteit during the student protests that year.

American Committee for Relief in Ireland

Jim Larkin, an Irish trade unionist, who had been closely associated with James Connolly in Ireland and with the Wobblies in the USA, was serving a five-year sentence in Sing Sing prison for promoting his socialist agenda.

AOU Checklist of North American Birds

The AOU Checklist of North American Birds is a checklist of bird species found in North and Middle America published by the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).

Bugs and Thugs

The next day, Bugs becomes a criminal-catching detective talking on the phone, as a member of Detectives Guild: Local 839 (a pun on the cartoonists' union), styling himself as "Bugs Bunny, Private EyeballThugs Thwarted, Arsonists Arrested, Bandits Booked, Forgers Found, Counterfeiters Caught, and Chiselers Chiseled."

Bummit

Bummit (hitchhiking group) is a student-run hitchhiking society at the University of Sheffield Students' Union, which raises funds for local charities by organizing several annual hitchhiking events, both within the UK and across Europe.

Cardiff University Students' Union

Head of Student Media is editor and publisher of Gair rhydd (Cardiff Universities student newspaper), the executive editor of Quench Magazine and executive manager/controller of Xpress Radio and CUTV.

Citizens UK

It was largely composed of faith groups including churches and mosques, schools, student organisations, union branches and residents' associations.

Cooperative Village

The East River Housing Corporation was one of the first developments of the newly formed United Housing Foundation and was financially sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Errol Alibux

Liakat Ali Errol Alibux (born in Paramaribo on 30 November 1948) is a Surinamese politician historically associated to the PALU.

Gemma Tumelty

Her opponents in 2007 were Sofie Buckland, a member of Education Not for Sale and an officer on the NUS National Executive, and Rob Owen, a member of RESPECT and General Secretary of the University of Manchester Students' Union.

Goldsmiths Students' Union

The Students' Union primarily organises student-led events but also hosts big gigs and has seen the likes of the Mystery Jets, Metronomy, Late of the Pier, Shy Child all player.

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Harold Rome

After a 2 week professional run, it was adapted for performances by members of the then-striking International Garment Workers' Union as an entertainment for its members.

Harry Nicholas

Born in Bristol, Nicholas worked for the Port of Bristol Authority until 1936, when he took a full-time post in the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU).

Henryk Jordan

In addition, Jordan presided over the Kraków Gynecological Society, as well as the Society of Medical Doctors, and the Association of Polish Teachers of Higher Education (a precursor to Polish Teachers' Union).

Hong Kong University Students' Union Choir

The Hong Kong University Students' Union Choir (Traditional Chinese: 香港大學學生會合唱團), also known as Union Choir, HKUSU, is a choral society affiliated with the Hong Kong University Students' Union.

Independent Students' Union

During the meeting, it was decided that the NZS would be seated in Warsaw, also the National Founding Committee was established, with eleven members (among them Maciej Kuroń, and Piotr Bikont).

Irish Women Workers' Union

Helena Moloney, an Abbey actor and nationalist, became involved and with Constance Markievicz helped to organise soup kitchens at Liberty Hall during the dispute.

Irish Writers' Union

In the 1980s a new Censorship of Publications Board composed of a body of retired judges started banning books afresh, among them works by Angela Carter; Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex; and various academic volumes dealing with erotic Classical art.

Jim Fiddes

He became a prominent member of the Transport and General Workers' Union, serving as chairman, secretary, collector and shop steward of 7/51 Branch at the depot and by 1970 as chairman of the TGWU's Commercial Services Group.

Jimmy Lawrence

Lawrence showed an aptitude for administration when Chairman of The Players' Union in his later days at Newcastle and after his playing retirement Lawrence moved into management.

Klaus Ernst

In 1972 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Union and in 1974 he took the chair of regional trade unions youth organization in Munich (until 1979) and became a partymember of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

László T. Ágoston

László T. Ágoston (born October 14, 1942 in Tass, Hungary) writer and publicist, founding member of the Gyula Krúdy Club of Literature, member of the Hungarian Writers' Union, author of numerous books, progeny of General János Lenkey, researcher of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Mangarhi

Amichand Singh's son, Sunil Singh, was nominated by the Anup Pandey (Chairman, Student Lok Dal) for the position of State Secretary of Uttar Pradeh's student union (for the term 2001-2006).

Matthew Mwendapole

Despite never having worked in the mining industry he was elected Secretary of the Nchanga branch of the African Mineworkers' Union (AMWU).

Milan Rai

Rai has been awarded the Frank Cousins Peace award from the Transport and General Workers' Union (shared, 1993), and the Peace Award of the Christian peace group Pax Christi (2007).

Morris Bialis

Morris Bialis (January 14, 1897 in Tikten, Poland – January 31, 1996 in Escondido, California) was a labor leader in International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Chicago Federation of Labor.

National Maritime Board

It built upon the union-employer relationship that had emerged during the war years and brought together representatives of the Shipping Federation, the National Union of Seamen and the National Union of Ship's Stewards, as well as some smaller unions in the industry, but allowing the British Seafarers' Union only local representation.

Piers Corbyn

In 1969 he became the first president of the Imperial College Students' Union to be directly elected by the student body.

Players' Union

The Players' Union was formed at a meeting on December 2, 1907 when Charlie Roberts and Billy Meredith (who had been involved in the AFU) convened the organisation of the Association of Football Players' and Trainers' Union (‘AFPTU’) (which the press called "The Players' Union") at the Imperial Hotel, Manchester.

Royal Albatross

Note: Some authorities have yet to split this species such as the SACC or James Clements, in that case, Royal Albatross refers to both Species.

Sabbatical officer

A sabbatical officer is a full-time officer elected by the members of a students' union (or similar body such as students' association, Students' Representative Council or guild of students), commonly at a higher education establishment such as a university.

Student union

Students' union, a student organization at many colleges and universities dedicated to student governance.

The Education of Everett Richardson

Everett Richardson was one of 235 trawlermen from the tiny ports of Canso, Mulgrave and Petit de Grat who fought for better pay, safer working conditions, job security and most of all, for the right to belong to the union they had chosen, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union or UFAWU.

Tim Coleman

While at Everton, he was notable for being one the few players, along with most of the Manchester United side, to maintain their membership of the Players' Union (the forerunner of the Professional Footballers' Association), in defiance of Football Association rules.

Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association

In 1978 teachers were represented by three unions: the Public Services Association (PSA), led by James Manswell, the Trinidad and Tobago Teachers’ Union, (TTTU), whose leader was St. Elmo Gopaul; and the Secondary School Teachers Association (SSTA) headed by Osmond Downer and which represented teachers in the so-called “prestige” schools in the country.

University of Leicester Students' Union

The union is also home to a Starbucks, Ryman's and Nourish, a small supermarket selling essential goods.

University of Salford Students' Union

Following in the footsteps of King's College London Students' Union, the Union transformed its governance prior to achieving registered charity status, as required by the Charities Act 2006.

University of Sheffield Students' Union

The Union, under its obligation as part of the NUS to provide 24-hour support for students, funds Sheffield University Nightline, a telephone and email based listening and information service run by student volunteers from the University.

Watershed College

As a measure of the recognition awarded to the course, when the Agricultural Section held a field day in September 1990 the opening address was delivered by none other than Mr Anthony Swire-Thompson, the then Deputy President of the Commercial Farmers' Union.

Werriwa by-election, 2005

This emerged in the form of Chris Hayes, an industrial mediator and former assistant secretary of the Australian Workers' Union with no prior political background.

Wide Comb Dispute

Australian sheep shearers, represented by the Australian Workers' Union, opposed the alteration of the Federal Pastoral Industry Award to allow the use of shearing equipment that used combs wider than 2.5 inches.


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