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Amicus is the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union, and the largest private sector union, formed by the merger of Manufacturing Science and Finance, the AEEU (Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union) agreed in 2001, and two smaller unions, UNIFI and the GPMU. Amicus also organises in both parts of Ireland and is affiliated to the UK Trades Union Congress, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Amicus is latin for friend or comrade [1]. The word may refer to: Amicus, the British trade union Amicus Productions Amicus curiae Amicus Bank Amicus, Inc Bartholomeus Amicus Peter Dodds McCormick (pen name: Amicus), composer of Advance Australia Fair. ...
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The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trade Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is the organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate. ...
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is the co-ordinating body of trade unions in Scotland. ...
Derek Simpson was the surprise winner of the election to General Secretary of the AEEU, and Joint General Secretary of Amicus. ...
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A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers. ...
Manufacturing, Science and Finance was a trade union in Britain. ...
The Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) was a British trade union. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. ...
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The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trade Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is the organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate. ...
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is the co-ordinating body of trade unions in Scotland. ...
Industry representation
Amicus organises workers in almost every industry, predominantly in the private sector. At the 2005 TUC Congress it was reported that Amicus had 1,200,000 members of whom 266,986 were female and 933,014 male. In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. ...
Political affiliations Amicus is affiliated to the Labour Party in Britain, and the Irish Labour Party (Ireland). The Amicus UK Parliamentary Group includes about 120 MPs. The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtà an Lucht Oibre) is a social democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. ...
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Foundation When the merger to form Amicus was agreed, the General Secretary of MSF was Roger Lyons, and Sir Ken Jackson led the AEEU. When the merger came into force they both became Joint General Secretaries of Amicus. Jackson was forced to hold an election, and was replaced by Derek Simpson. In May 2003, Simpson became General Secretary in his own right following the departure of Lyons. 'Amicus' was chosen for the name of this new union for its Latin meaning: friend, comrade (m). A large number of international organizations and other bodies have a secretary general or secretary-general as their chief administrative officers or in other administrative capacities. ...
Roger Lyons (born 1942-09-14) was the General Secretary of the MSF trade union from 1992 and re-elected leader of the union in 1997. ...
Sir Ken Jackson (born 1937-03-03) was the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) from 1995 until that unions merger with the Manufacturing Science and Finance (MSF) union to form Amicus in 2001. ...
Derek Simpson was the surprise winner of the election to General Secretary of the AEEU, and Joint General Secretary of Amicus. ...
2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for May, 2003. ...
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Further mergers In late 2004 two other major unions joined Amicus - 'UNIFI (the union for the finance industry) and 'GPMU (the Graphical, Paper and Media Union). Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
During 2005 discussions started between the TGWU, Amicus and the GMB about the possibility of merging the three unions into one organisation with potentially 2.5 million members covering almost every segment of the economy. On 14 June 2006 the GMB Conference voted not to continue with discussions although the other two unions pursued merger talks. A recall conference of the TGWU held on 18 Dec 2006 supported the merger (Amicus did not hold a recall conference), and a ballot of both unions' membership during February and early March 2007, also approved the merger. The result of the ballot was announced on 8 March 2007: 70.1% of Amicus members and 86.4% of T&G members voted to support the merger, from a turnout of 27%. The press release announced that the resulting union had the working title "New Union" and the name would be decided by a ballot of the membership. [1] However, on April 2nd, The Times reported that the name Unite had been chosen.[2] Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Transport and General Workers Union, also known as the TGWU and the T&G, is the largest general trade union in the United Kingdom, with 900,000 members. ...
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 700,000 members. ...
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The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1788. ...
Unite - the Union, known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union, formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport & General Workers Union. ...
In early April 2007, the BBC announced that Amicus was to begin discussions with North American union, United Steelworkers, about a possible merger. If successful, it would create an international "super union" with more than 3 million members, more able to pressure multinational companies and their managers. [3] For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...
The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (United Steelworkers or USW) claims over 1. ...
A multinational corporation (MNC) is a corporation or enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries. ...
Organisation The supreme decision-making body of Amicus is its Policy Conference which convenes every two years. At other times, the National Executive Committee, which meets every two months, is responsible for governance of the union. However, the General Secretary is empowered to make executive decisions in the periods between meetings of the NEC.
Amicus has a corporate office at 35 King Street in London's Covent Garden, and its main administrative centre, Hayes Court, is at Bromley in south-east London. The union runs two of its own colleges, Esher Place at Esher in Surrey and Quorn Grange at Loughborough in Leicestershire, and is a major user of Wortley Hall near Sheffield. A further facility, Whitehall College in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire is currently inactive, following a survey which revealed the presence of large amounts of asbestos which will be expensive to remove. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Covent Garden is a district in London, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden. ...
Bromley is the principal town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. ...
Esher is a town in the Surrey borough of Elmbridge in South East England near the River Mole. ...
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Loughboroughs carillon Loughborough parish church The Brush engineering works Loughborough University Loughborough (pronounced locally as either , LUFF-burra or , LUFF-bruh, and more widely as [ˈlʌfˌb(ə)ɹə]) is a town in Leicestershire, central England with a population of 57,600 as of 2004. ...
Leicestershire ( IPA: (RP), IPA: (locally)), abbreviation Leics. ...
Wortley Hall is a stately home in the small South Yorkshire village of Wortley, located several miles north of Sheffield. ...
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, Bishops Stortford is a market town in east Hertfordshire, England, just touching the county boundary with Essex. ...
For the similarly named county in the West Midlands region, see Herefordshire. ...
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The union operates many other offices across the British Isles to support activity in each of the union's 12 regions. The four unions forming Amicus each had a fully-developed network of offices to support their own operations; there is an ongoing exercise to co-locate staff from geographically-adjacent offices in order to reduce the property portfolio.
Sectors Amicus is primarily a sector-based union. The industrial sectors are responsible for electing the majority of National Executive Committee members, and have the right to submit the majority of motions to the Policy and Rules Conferences. The remainder of NEC positions are regional and women's seats.
Regions Amicus has 12 regions - Scotland, Wales, and the island of Ireland together with nine English regions corresponding to the British government's Regional Development Agencies. Each region has a Regional Council which meets every two months and is composed of about 35 delegates, elected by regional Sector, Women's, Equalities and Branch Conferences. This article is about the country. ...
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Regional Development Agencies are Non-Departmental Public Bodies, sponsored by Central Government Departments, for the development of each of the UKs Government Office regions. ...
An Amicus region typically contains several hundred branches, each of which represent a smaller group of members, running local campaigns on their behalf and providing a means for members to socialise with one another and increase their involvement in Amicus and the wider union movement. Nationally, there are about 1900 branches. Branches are typically organised on a workplace, geographical or sectoral basis, and vary in size from a few dozen to several thousand members. One reason for the wide variation in branch size and type is that, during the numerous union mergers which culminated in the formation of Amicus, branches were often not forced to merge. For this reason many branches are still based on the structures that existed in long-disappeared unions such as TASS. Some branches are inactive, for example because the workplace they represented no longer exists. In 2005, Amicus began a consultation on reorganisation of branches, primarily intended to close inactive branches or merge them with neighbouring ones which are more active. Not surprisingly this reorganisation was of some concern to branch activists, and prompted a number of neighbouring branches to voluntarily merge in order to pre-empt any action from the centre. Other branches, for example those in the voluntary sector, are by their nature small, and have made representations to the NEC and the General Secretary in which they pointed out that a small branch is not necessarily an inactive one. As of October 2006 the results of the branch consultation have not been published. The Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (almost exclusively known as TASS) was a British trade union. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ...
Elections and local control The sectoral nature of Amicus contrasts with MSF where branches and regions held the majority of control and where branches were entitled to directly elect delegates to national policy and rules conferences. In Amicus, all conference delegates must be elected by a National Sector, Women's or Equalities Conference or a Regional Branch Conference.
In general, committees of the union from branch level upwards must be composed of lay members elected by the group of members they represent, as per MSF custom and practice. A notable exception is for the secretary of a regional or national committee, who is usually a Full-Time Officer employed by the union. However, within the AEEU, branches were often chaired by Officers.
A rule change in 2005 provided for the establishment of Area Activist Quarterlies (also known as Area Committees) consisting of workplace representatives and branch officers from a given geographical area, to be smaller than the existing Regions. These resemble the AEEU's District Committees. The first Quarterlies took place in April 2006, and will be convened four times per year. The primary purpose of the Quarterlies is to allow local activists to share information on local issues such as redundancies and industrial disputes, and co-ordinate local campaigns. April 2006 : ↠- January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Marcos Pontes, Brazils first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. ...
Conferences and committees As a general rule any candidate for a position on a committee of the union must also be a workplace representative, in order to retain the connection with workplaces. However retired members may hold branch positions; until a rule change in 2005, retired members wishing to hold a position other than Branch Secretary needed the NEC's consent. An further exception is made for the equalities committees where a committee member is expected to be in employment but need not be a representative.
Amicus conferences are organised on a two-yearly cycle with national Policy Conferences taking place in odd-numbered years, and sectoral, national equality and regional branch conferences being held in the intervening years. This differs with MSF and AEEU arrangements where national conferences took place on an annual basis. Similarly, Regional Councils meet every two months as opposed to monthly under MSF.
Due to the two-yearly cycle, Amicus does not have a President, because legislation requires the position to be elected annually - either by delegates to annual conference, or the entire membership. In view of the cost of a national postal ballot, the Chair of the NEC was given the role of chairing the 2005 Policy and Rules Conferences.
The first and only Rules Conference of Amicus took place in 2005. The next Rules Conference was planned to take place in 2009, but following the merger with the T+G it is now likely to take place in 2010, as part of the wider Unite union. Unite - the Union, known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union, formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport & General Workers Union. ...
Caucus groups Two main caucus groups exist - the Amicus Unity Gazette with broad left aims and objectives, and the left-of-centre ATU Network. Both are open to lay members and Amicus employees alike. A caucus is most generally defined as being a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement. ...
Unity Gazette is the name of the broad left in the AEEU section of AMICUS. Its official web site is http://www. ...
Broad Left is the generic term for a coalition of left members in a trade union. ...
ATU Network is a caucus group within the Amicus trade union which seeks to attract members and employees of Amicus who support the Labour Party and who are sympathetic to Blairism. ...
General Secretaries - 2001-02: Ken Jackson and Roger Lyons
- 2002-04: Derek Simpson and Roger Lyons
- 2004-present: Derek Simpson
Sir Ken Jackson (born 1937-03-03) was the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) from 1995 until that unions merger with the Manufacturing Science and Finance (MSF) union to form Amicus in 2001. ...
Roger Lyons (born 1942-09-14) was the General Secretary of the MSF trade union from 1992 and re-elected leader of the union in 1997. ...
Derek Simpson was the surprise winner of the election to General Secretary of the AEEU, and Joint General Secretary of Amicus. ...
Roger Lyons (born 1942-09-14) was the General Secretary of the MSF trade union from 1992 and re-elected leader of the union in 1997. ...
Derek Simpson was the surprise winner of the election to General Secretary of the AEEU, and Joint General Secretary of Amicus. ...
External links - Amicus website
- Amicus sectors
- www.amicus.cc unofficial website - 'what's really going on in our union'
- UK and US unions in merger talks - BBC Report
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