When you’re shopping around for insurance, it could be worth
checking with different insurers whether they offer any special rates for
people affiliated with membership organisations like trade unions. Not only do trade unions build up close relations with
employers to defend and advance the interests of their members, they also have
affiliations with different organisations like insurers. One such example is
the trade unions that work with UIA, a mutual insurance company with over 100
years of trading history.
UIA originally only provided trade union insurance, providing policies for trade union members
and then also for those people who worked for not for profit organisations.
Now, any member of the public can buy their travel, home, motor and pet insurance
through UIA, but trade union members still benefit from preferential rates.
For example, members of Unite can get special premiums on Unite Insurance through UIA. As an
example, Unite members can receive a 5% discount when they buy a combined
buildings and contents house insurance policy.
With Unite house insurance, Unite members receive free
access to a 24-hour legal helpline, free accidental damage cover for audio and
home computer equipment under the contents policy, the cost of alternative
accommodation should their home become uninhabitable due to an insured event
like a burst pipe or storm damage.
UIA works in a similar way with other trade unions like
Unison, NASUWT, RMT, CTW and FBU, offering preferential premiums to all these
trade union members and their families.
So, if you’re a trade union member and you have a renewal on
one of your insurance policies coming up – whether it’s for your pet, your
house, your car or your travel insurance, check out the offers available with
UIA and see if you can get a better deal that you currently have.
