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	Guardian \| Electricians to walk out in pay deal revolt
		Now Sir Ken is faced with a far bigger revolt by members working in the electrical contracting industry, who believe AEEU officials have given too much away in their annual pay negotiations.
		A network of well organised AEEU stewards, representing a skilled workforce which now has the whip hand in a tight labour market, has seen off several attempts by contracting employers in recent years to undermine the electricians' position or target union activists.
		But Paul Corby, the AEEU national organiser for construction, said the workers were "jumping the gun".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3902914-103620,00.html (563 words)

	Derek Simpson (trade unionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Derek Simpson (born 1944-12-23) is the General Secretary of the Amicus trade union.
		He was the surprise winner of the June 2002 election for the position of Joint General Secretary of the AEEU Section of Amicus.
		During this election campaign he appeared at fringe meetings of the Amicus MSF section conference in Blackpool, defying an instruction from Jackson not to attend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Simpson (445 words)

	FT.com \| TotalSearch \| Global Archive \| Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sir Ken Jackson, general secretary of the AEEU engineering union and a close friend of the prime minister, is expected to carry on in his post after he reaches the official union retirement age of 65 next spring.
		In an unprecedented move, the union's executive intends to propose an emergency motion at the AEEU policy conference, to be held next month, calling for a rule change that would enable Sir Ken to continue for an unspecified period as general secretary.
		The AEEU officials argue that Sir Ken is needed as a strong joint general secretary of the new union to ensure stability in its formative years.
	www.davidbeaumont.btinternet.co.uk /msf/ft.html (361 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although every penny is welcome, we must evaluate the AEEU's performance and let you the employee decide if they have performed to expectation.
		When evaluating the performance of the AEEU, we must remember that we were in boom times - with a skills shortage - when the negotiations took place.
		The AEEU missed 1.7% worth of pay rise that was clearly available due to the upturn of the industry.
	www.zyworld.com /kca~oilc/2001.htm (275 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Union merger put in doubt
		But AEEU general secretary Ken Jackson has criticised his MSF opposite number, Roger Lyons, for making "premature" comments on the merger.
		He was responding to Mr Lyons speech at an joint industry conference organised by the two unions, in which he said the MSF executive hoped to make a decision on a merger in December and ballot members next year.
		Mr Jackson said he had not been consulted on the announcement, and the AEEU executive had not had a chance to discuss the deal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/523499.stm (254 words)

	House of Commons - Work and Pensions - Minutes of Evidence
		The AEEU have bemoaned the fact that the number of commercial (unlike naval) foreign orders have declined over the years and that BAE SYSTEMS now appears to be concentrating on MoD work.
		The AEEU welcomed the setting up of the Clyde Task Force and is pleased to acknowledge that a lot of good work has been done on this front.
		There is an ageing workforce within the Yards and the AEEU believe that this workforce should be infused with young people and therefore we would like to see an expansion of apprentice opportunities.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmscotaf/865/2052007.htm (789 words)

	Amicus : AEEU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was formed by a merger between MSF and the AEEU.
		When the merger to form Amicus was agreed, the General Secretary[?] of MSF was Roger Lyons[?], and Sir Ken Jackson[?] led the AEEU.
		The development of gold remarkable, but has had a large influence upon the business of all success and have established a reputation for enterprise, sagacity, "good name" is not confined to their homes, but goes out upon every sea.
	www.termsdefined.net /ae/aeeu.html (185 words)

	AEEU members demand ballot on mayor by Richard James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		With union after union opting to ballot their members on the London Mayor selection, those trying to avoid this are running intoserious trouble with their members.
		The AEEU is being threatened with legal action by London members who object to general secretary, Sir Ken Jackson’s announcement that the union would be voting for Frank Dobson in the London Mayor selection without balloting its members.
		An AEEU national spokesperson told the Standard that Ken Jackson had voiced personal views not binding on the union.
	www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/9912/page6b.htm (537 words)

	AEEU - About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In his speech to the annual Amicus AEEU conference today, Derek Simpson, Joint General Secretary of Amicus, will unveil a ticking manufacturing meltdown clock which shows the loss of more than 20 manufacturing jobs every hour but will say this can be turned around with a change in government policy.
		In a ballot of 15,000 Amicus AEEU health service members, 66% voted to support the Agenda for Change pay modernisation agreement being trailed at the 12 early implementer sites.
		Amicus AEEU members are predominantly maintenance and craft workers employed in the estate departments of NHS trusts.
	www.btinternet.com /~davidbeaumont/msf/aeeusimpson.html (2367 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Union merger put in doubt
		But AEEU general secretary Ken Jackson has criticised his MSF opposite number, Roger Lyons, for making "premature" comments on the merger.
		He was responding to Mr Lyons speech at an joint industry conference organised by the two unions, in which he said the MSF executive hoped to make a decision on a merger in December and ballot members next year.
		Mr Jackson said he had not been consulted on the announcement, and the AEEU executive had not had a chance to discuss the deal.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/523499.stm (254 words)

	[A-List] UK labour militancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The AEEU was regarded as a bastion of rightwing Labour loyalism and No = 10's man had initially been expected to win comfortably.
		During the contest the AEEU machine used the union's in-house = publications to promote Sir Ken and hundreds of officials were asked to = work for him.
		An inquiry set up by the AEEU's executive also accused two Welsh = supporters of Mr Simpson of breaking the union's rules, although that is = disputed by the pair.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-July/019800.html (653 words)

	WHY THE PROPOSED MERGER BETWEEN MSF AND THE AEEU SHOULD BE OPPOSED
		In the AEEU the rules state that 'The general government and control of the union shall be vested in the Executive Council...'.
		This AEEU provision is repeated in the Instrument of Amalgamation.
		A merger with the AEEU would be a serious setback for trade union democracy and would lead to the ultimate subordination of MSF members to the authoritarian practices of the AEEU.
	www.brickman.dircon.co.uk /mortimer.htm (775 words)

	NEC members for Branch
		Given the far greater number of AEEU members in the Region, this suggests that, proportionally, there was a much higher turnout of MSF members.
		Sharon Allen has had a high profile in MSF nationally for many years, was President of the Union in 1997/98 and has been an active member of the National Women's Committee.
		Vi Huddart was active in the AEEU at Regional level.
	www.amicus-tyneside-health.net /nec_branch.html (1030 words)

	The Militant - 12/7/98 -- Electricians Firm In Strike Over Safety Conditions At London Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) shop steward Keith Knight told the Militant after an evacuation, 60 people were left "down the hole." AEEU electricians on site refused to go back underground until the alarms were made effective and tested.
		Strikers refute accusations of sabotage, noting that union members employed by Drake and Scull had no access to the alleged vandalized areas and were not at work on the weekend JLE claimed this took place.
		Celia Pugh is a member of the AEEU at Prestolite in west London.
	www.themilitant.com /1998/6244/6244_5.html (1162 words)

	:: www.teeu.ie :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The row blew up after the AEEU recruited 39 electricians in Cadbury’s Dublin plant in breach of a ‘spheres of influence’ agreement with the TEEU not to organise this trade in the Republic.
		The AEEU was expelled from ICTU in 2001 after refusing to comply with two congress rulings that it must abide by past arrangements with the TEEU.
		The situation was complicated by the fact that the AEEU subsequently combined with another British based union, MSF, to form AMICUS.
	www.teeu.ie /teeu_news_2003_0014.html (303 words)

	Merger forms new super-union
		At the beginning of April 2001, the AEEU engineering trade union and the MSF technical union announced that the proposed merger between the two organisations had been approved in membership ballots.
		The AEEU has over 732,000 members whilst the MSF has almost 300,000, giving a combined membership of over 1 million.
		Postal ballots of the memberships of the two organisations were held during March 2001, and the result was officially declared on 2 April.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /2001/04/inbrief/UK0104123N.html (476 words)

	Observer \| AEEU plans German merger to create Euro 'super union'
		Sir Ken Jackson, head of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical union wants to seal a merger with Germany's giant IG Metall to create a pan-European union representing more than 3 million manufacturing workers.
		Jackson is due to outline his proposal at a dinner on 6 January - to be attended by IG Metall head Klaus Zwickel - marking the 150th anniversary of the AEEU's forerunner, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.
		The AEEU is currently merging with the professional Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union to create a 1.3 million strong organisation.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4103048-102271,00.html (280 words)

	MSF/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A new super union is to be formed as members of the manufacturing, science and finance union MSF and the engineering and electrical Union AEEU gave overwhelming approval for the two unions to merge.
		The new union will represent over one million members in every part of the UK economy; will be the second largest union in the TUC, the largest affiliate to the Labour Party; and will have assets of over £100 million, with an annual income of more than £60 million.
		The new union will be led by AEEU general secre-tary Sir Ken Jackson and MSF general secretary Roger Lyons, as joint general secretaries.
	freespace.virgin.net /cwu.lsw/News/msf.htm (162 words)

	Britain: A Socialist Programme for AMICUS - A Socialist Appeal pamphlet
		Billy Hayes of the CWU and Derek Simpson of the AEEU are now on the General Council, along with Jeremy Dear the General Secretary of the NUJ, Andy Gilchrist of the FBU, Mick Rix of ASLEF and other socialists and lefts.
		This was clearly demonstrated when the right wing AEEU executive removed, through a postal ballot, the right to elect officials, which had been retained from the original AEU rulebook after the threat of opposition to the merger with the EETPU.
		Members of both the AEEU and the MSF were denied a say in the union's position on the election of the London Mayor - while the AEEU were funding Frank Dobson's campaign to the tune of £50,000 of members' money.
	www.marxist.com /britain-socialist-programme-amicus020603.htm (17991 words)

	Britain: Sheffield steel workers locked out following dispute over pay cuts
		A ballot of the workers at the company's main Greensand Foundry, William Cook's largest Sheffield plant, was organised, seeking their support for action short of a strike in solidarity with the strikers.
		The William Cook dispute is the latest in a series of industrial struggles over the past decade or more that have seen workers first locked out then sacked after taking industrial action in response to cutbacks and attacks on their employment rights.
		The AEEU was formed in 1992, through a merger between the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) and the electricians and plumbers Union, the EETPU, which have a long history supplying the most right wing representatives of the trade union bureaucracy.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jun2001/shef-j02_prn.shtml (1381 words)

	Union will fight to save UK mobile jobs - ZDNet UK
		Bob Shannon, national officer of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), will lead the formal discussions with Ericsson, which on Friday announced that it was axing 12,000 jobs worldwide.
		The AEEU has a "single-member agreement" with Ericsson, meaning that it is officially recognised by the mobile phone giant and is able to discuss a range of issues including pay, health and safely and, at least in principle, matters of company strategy.
		Ericsson's good relations with the AEEU are in stark contrast to the policy of rival handset manufacturer Motorola, which does not recognise trade unions in this country.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /itmanagement/0,1000000308,2085748,00.htm?user_rating=1 (719 words)

	The Militant - 12/14/98 -- Electricians In London Win Strike Over Safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sixty workers were left underground during a fire evacuation because of inaudible fire alarms.
		The Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) members saw this as victimization by their employer who refused to reverse the transfer.
		Celia Pugh is a member of the AEEU at Prestolite in London, England.
	www.themilitant.com /1998/6245/6245_28.html (349 words)

	The Scotsman - Business - Union merger formalised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The move is widely seen as an attempt to boost the organisation’s political muscle at a time when trade unions are becoming increasingly marginalised, as well as an opportunity to shore up falling membership figures.
		AEEU Scottish Regional Secretary, Danny Carrigan, said: "That’s one of our objectives, to have more clout with the government." Union membership has plummeted in the last 20 years with the AEEU alone losing half its membership, according to Carrigan.
		Both MSF and the AEEU were known for their reluctance take workers out on strike.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=162002 (401 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Workers vote for super union
		About 80% of the members who voted were in favour of the merger creating the 1.2m strong organisation and members of the two unions are now being consulted on a name for the new organisation.
		Last year the AEEU floated the idea of a pan-European merger between itself and the German industrial giant IG Metall.
		The AEEU and IG Metal are among the most compatible UK and German unions and have reciprocal representation arrangements for their members when working abroad.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/1256070.stm (346 words)

	AEEU\|29Jun02\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Manchester Simpson supporters leafleted AEEU members in the city, including those in bus garages, the Rolls-Royce plant, British Aerospace, and universities and hospitals.
		Jerry Hicks is the AEEU convenor for Rolls-Royce Test Areas in Bristol and deputy chair of the union branch's central committee.
		Jackson is now claiming that the merger between the AEEU and MSF, which the AEEU spent £1 million promoting, is so dangerous that he is the only man who can see it through.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=5378 (497 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Workers strike at nuclear plant
		The members of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), have staged a two-day walkout after rejecting a 3% pay increase from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) last month.
		The union is hoping the action will persuade the authority to reconsider its claim for a 5% pay increase.
		Danny Carrigan, Scottish secretary of the AEEU, said the staff had rejected the deal because they had been falling behind outside contractors doing the same jobs on the plant over a number of years.
	www.nci.org /d/dounreay-bbc21201.htm (260 words)

	Amicus AEEU, Public Liability, Commercial Motor, & Annual Travel Insurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Amicus AEEU Travel Facility has been running for a number of years and now has thousands of clients.
		We provide a comprehensive Worldwide Annual Travel Insurance Scheme which is exclusive to members of Amicus AEEU and their families and will cover all aspects of your holiday arrangements.
		The facility is open to any member of Amicus AEEU aged between 18 and 73.
	www.affinity-insurance.net /travel.html (263 words)

	AEEU/Amicus: Derek Simpson's campaign\|6Apr02\|Socialist Worker
		The media has already begun scare stories around the election challenge to the leader of the AEEU section of the Amicus union, Sir Ken Jackson.
		Derek Simpson has to get a minimum of 15 AEEU section branches this month to nominate him to stand for general secretary.
		Any AEEU section member can demand a meeting if one is not scheduled.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=9355 (289 words)

	Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By week four the AEEU was actively encouraging sparks to travel to Kent and cross the picket line.
		The actions of AEEU officials throughout the dispute was truly scandalous.
		The mood amongst those on the picket line at the end of the dispute was one of anger and defiance rather than of defeat--hopefully a lesson for the future.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr242/flaig.htm (681 words)

	[No title]
		The AEEU is an engineering and electrical trade union and its membership is concentrated in these industries.
		The Company stated that far from there being significant differences between the workers in the Union's proposed BU and the other workers, the terms and conditions of workers were broadly similar, although they were moving towards a unified package of terms and conditions for their workers.
		14 The Company advised that they inherited the presence of a union, (the AEEU) at their Coventry site when they took it over and no information was available regarding the site at Selkirk as it was no longer operational.
	www.cac.gov.uk /recent_decisions/Decision_texts/AEEUViaBargUnit.htm (1653 words)

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