Customs And Excise Preventative Staff Association
The Customs and Excise Preventive Staff Association (PSA) was a trade union representing customs officials in the United Kingdom. The union was in existence by 1947, when it was led by A. E. Farmer. It affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, and by 1971 it had 2,845 members. The following year, it merged into the Customs and Excise Group The Customs and Excise Group was a trade union representing civil servants working in customs and excise in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1972, when the Customs and Excise Federation merged with the Customs and Excise Preventive Sta ....{{cite book , first1=John B. , last1=Smethurst , first2=Peter , last2=Carter , title=Historical Directory of Trade Unions , volume=6 , page=387 , isbn=9780754666837 , date=June 2009 , publisher=Ashgate Publishing , location=Farnham General Secretaries :1947: A. E. Farmer :H. G. Farren :1967: R. J. Lowe References Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom Civil service trade unions Trade un ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions. There are 48 affiliated unions, with a total of about 5.5 million members. Frances O'Grady became General Secretary in 2013 and presented her resignation in 2022, with Paul Nowak becoming the next General Secretary in January 2023. Organisation The TUC's decision-making body is the Annual Congress, which takes place in September. Between congresses decisions are made by the General Council, which meets every two months. An Executive Committee is elected by the Council from its members. Affiliated unions can send delegates to Congress, with the number of delegates they can send proportionate to their size. Each year Congress elects a President of the Trades Union Congress, who carries out the office for the remainder of the year and then presides over the following year's conference. The TUC is not affiliated with ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Customs And Excise Group
The Customs and Excise Group was a trade union representing civil servants working in customs and excise in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1972, when the Customs and Excise Federation merged with the Customs and Excise Preventive Staff Association. The components of the former federation, including the Customs and Excise Controlling Grades Association and the Customs and Excise Surveyors Association, became affiliates of the new union.John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'', vol.6, pp.386-387 The union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. Its general secretary was Jack Morrish.{{cite encyclopedia , entry=Morrish, John Edwin (Jack) , publisher=Oxford University Press , encyclopedia=Who's Who , doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U28213 The union had 12,000 members by 1973, and had grown to 13,148 by 1975, when it merged into the Society of Civil and Public Servants The Society of Civil and Public Servants (SCPS) was a trade ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Defunct Trade Unions Of The United Kingdom
Defunct (no longer in use or active) may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Civil Service Trade Unions
Civil may refer to: *Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights *Civil disobedience *Civil engineering *Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces *Civil law (other), multiple meanings * Civil liberties *Civil religion *Civil service *Civil society *Civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polic ... * Civil (surname) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |