Trade union insurance

If you’re a trade union member, you may qualify for cheaper insurance through your union’s affiliated partner. And one of the best things about going down this route is that your union’s partner is most probably a mutual insurer; run for the mutual benefit of all its policy holders, with no profit element necessary to pay directors’ bonuses or shareholders’ dividends etc. In other words, you should be able to get a great deal – and there should be no need for that deal to rest heavily on your conscience for any reason.

UIA Insurance, for example, partners a number of the major trade unions as well as some other not for profit organisations - including Unison, Unite, CWU, Usdaw, NASUWT, RMT, the Ramblers' Association, BFAWU, FBU and NAPO.

UIA is what is known as a specialist mutual affinity insurer – with over a hundred years' worth of experience in providing insurance to trade union members. What’s more, all its products and services are available to the families of its members.

In other words, the philosophy that attracted you to the trade union movement in the first place – namely to protect terms and conditions in the workplace and to work together fairly with colleagues in doing so – is alive and well in the insurance you should be able to get access to through your own trade union. The two things go hand in hand from a moral standpoint and the fact that you should simultaneously be able to get a good deal is almost a bonus.

So whether you’re looking for a good deal through NASUWT house insurance or for your Unison home insurance, you should be able to find it through an organisation which exists as a community to serve the mutual benefit of all its members – rather like a trade union in fact!