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NUS

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NUSNational University of Singapore
NUSNational Union of Students (UK)
NUSNational University of Samoa (est. 1984)
NUSNitrĂ³geno Ureico en Sangre (Spanish: Blood Urea Nitrogen)
NUSnot Used
NUSNational Union of Seamen (UK, now part of National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers)
NUSNorthern Underwater Systems
NUSNeuStar Ultra Services (various locations)
NUSNetwork User Interface
NUSNuclear Utilities Services Corporation
NUSNintendo Update Server
NUSNotebook User Interface
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He worked for the National Union of Seamen then was MP for Hull East from 1970 to 2010.
THE front page of the ECHO 37 years ago today reported that the National Union of Seamen was stepping up its industrial action over the closure of the P&O ferry link between Liverpool and Belfast.
When I was in the National Union of Seamen in the 1960s, I fought to change its rule that allowed each member to get an extra vote for every five years of union membership.
At the same time overseas workers, believing the national Union of Seamen was not acting in their interests, formed a rival union for blacks and Arabs called the Minority Movement.
It meant I could refuse to sign on a ship under the Shipping Federation which, together with the National Union of Seamen, controlled our lives.
The 8,700 tonne Baltic Eagle had been stopped by the National Union of Seamen from leaving the river in retaliation for the sacking of the crew of the Baltic Eagle's sister ship, the Baltic Valiant.
At the age of 20, he was a steward of the National Union of Seamen and became the youngest-ever convener.
ANSWERS: 1 Limoges' 2 The National Union of Seamen' 3 Adams' 4 Steve Collins' 5 Every ten years' 6 A putt that should not be missed and thus is conceded to the opponent' 7 One-sixteenth' 8 Billingham' 9 Bacchus' 10 Gold or yellow.
Prescott was in the Merchant Navy for 10 years, an official of the National Union of Seamen for two and he famously threw a punch at an egg- thrower in the 2001 election.
Tabili suggests that shipowners might not have been so successful in utilizing imperial ideology if the National Union of Seamen (NFSU/NUS) had organized men of colour and resisted the wage hierarchy.
The strike began on May 16, when the National Union of Seamen was fighting for a 40-hour week for its members - after Hogarth & Co put the hours up to 56 - and PS60 a month pay for an able seaman.
Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Every ten years; 2 The National Union of Seamen; 3 Billingham; 4 One-sixteenth; 5 Adams; 6 Shadowlands; 7 Bacchus; 8 Belgium; 9 Gold or yellow; 10 Steve Collins.
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