Manufacturing, Science and Finance (or the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union; almost exclusively known as MSF) was a
trade union
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in
Britain
Britain most often refers to:
* Great Britain, a large island comprising the countries of England, Scotland and Wales
* The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in Europe comprising Great Britain and the north-eas ...
. Over eighty members of
Parliament
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(primarily members of the
Labour Party) were members.
History
The MSF was the result of a merger in January 1988 between the
Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988.
History
The ASTMS was created in 1969 when ASSET (the Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Techn ...
(ASTMS) and the
Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (TASS). In 1991, it had 604,000 members, but this fell to 446,000 in 1996, the most rapid decline of any major British union.
In 2001 the MSF merged with the
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union to form
Amicus. The
General Secretary
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of MSF from 1992 until the merger with Amicus was
Roger Lyons, who continued as Joint General Secretary of Amicus's MSF section. In 2007 Amicus merged with the
TGWU to form
Unite.
Amalgamations
Several unions amalgamated with the MSF:
* 1988: Church of England Children's Society Staff Association, Imperial Supervisors' Association, United Friendly Field Management Staff Association
[Gary N. Chaison, ''Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries'', pp.175-184]
* 1989: Imperial Group Staff Association
* 1990:
Health Visitors' Association
* 1991: Australian Mutual Provident Society
* 1993: Hospital Physicists Association,
National Union of Scalemakers["The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5][John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'', vol.6, p.199]
* 1994: Ceron Research Staff Association
* 1997: College of Health Care Chaplains
* 1998:
Communication Managers' Association
* 1999: Britannic Supervisory Union, Corporation of London Staff Association,
National Union of Insurance Workers
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, ce ...
, Neilson Staff Association
* 2000: Lloyds Registry Staff Association,
Union of Textile Workers[Peter Carter and John B. Smethurst, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions: Volume 6'', p.116]
* 2001: Leicester Housing Association Staff Association
Leadership
General Secretaries
:1988:
Clive Jenkins and
Ken Gill
:1988:
Ken Gill
:1992:
Roger Lyons
Assistant General Secretaries
:1988: Roger Lyons and
Barbara Switzer
:1992: John Chowcat and Barbara Switzer
:1997: John Chowcat
:1999: ''Post vacant''
References
External links
Catalogue of the MSF archives held at the
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
1988 establishments in the United Kingdom
Trade unions established in 1988
Trade unions disestablished in 2001
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