{{short description, Former trade union of the United Kingdom
The Barclays Group Staff Union was a
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...
representing workers at
Barclays Bank
Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services.
Barclays traces ...
in the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
.
The union was founded in about 1918 as the Barclays Bank Staff Association. It was registered as an independent trade union in about 1980, and by the mid-1990s had more than 46,000 members, representing over half of the bank's employees. In 1998, the union changed its name to UNiFI, then the following year merged with the
Banking, Insurance and Finance Union
The Banking, Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU) was a British trade union.
The union was founded in 1946 as the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE), when the Bank Officers' Guild and the Scottish Bankers' Association merged. In 1979, it ...
and the NatWest Staff Association to form the very similarly named UNIFI.Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'', vol.5, pp.282-285
General Secretaries
:c.1960: Cyril Kempson
:1977: Eddie Gale
:1993: Paul Snowball