ACCORD
Accord is the independent trade union, that seeks to represent the 55,000 or so employees of the HBOS Group. It is a relatively new union, only formed in 2001 from the merger of the staff unions of the Bank of Scotland and Halifax plc (the two businesses that combined to form the HBOS Group in the same year.
Although it is affilliated to the Trades Union Congress, it is not, unlike may other British Trade Unions affiliated to the Labour Party and therefore maintains a politically neutral stance.