stuc

Stuc may refer to more than one thing. The most prominent use is STUC, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the national trade union center that represents and coordinates the activity of Scottish trade unions. STUC serves as an umbrella organization for affiliated unions, engages in policy advocacy, industrial relations, and campaigns on labor rights, living standards, and social justice. It holds regular conferences and publishes material on labor market issues and workers’ rights, and it maintains formal connections with the UK Trades Union Congress and international labor bodies.

In architecture, stuc (often seen as stucco in English) refers to a plaster-based material used to coat walls and ceilings. Traditional formulations are lime-based and applied in layers: a scratch coat, a brown coat, and a finish coat; modern variants use cement, gypsum, or synthetic binders. Stucco can be smooth or textured and is frequently used for decorative mouldings, relief work, and exterior façades. It has long been common in Mediterranean and colonial-era architecture and remains widely used in contemporary construction, including exterior insulation and finishing systems.

In French usage, stuc is the term for stucco and appears in architectural and art-historical contexts.