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	Derek Simpson (trade unionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the leader of one of the so-called "big four" unions, Derek Simpson enjoys significant influence within the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party, particularly as Amicus is predicted to merge with two of the other big four unions, the TGWU and the GMB.
		He joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) on becoming an apprentice at the age of 15, and held a number of increasingly senior union positions in workplaces where he was employed.
		In 1981 he became the union's District Secretary for Sheffield and was still working for the union in that city when he stood for the position of Joint General Secretary in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Simpson (445 words)

	Amalgamated Society of Engineers - Australian Trade Union Archives Trade Union entry
		Established in 1851, the original Amalgamated Engineering Union was merely a branch of the British union.
		This union remained the Australian division of the British Amalgamated Engineering Union until 1969 when it became autonomous, shortening its name to the Amalgamated Engineering Union [AEU] to reflect this.
		Further amalgamations in 1976 with the Federated Shipwrights' and the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union in 1983 changed the focus and the name of the union but by 1985 it had become known once again as the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0062b.htm (329 words)

	Jim Higgins: Amalgamating the engineers (1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Within the amalgamated union there are four sections: Engineering with 1,200,000 members; the Constructional Engineers with 30,000; the Foundry workers with 50,000; and the Technical and Supervisory Staff (TASS) section with 130,000.
		If the union makes it impossible for appointed officials to maintain their existing rights and conditions then any prospect of further amalgamation with other unions will be much circumscribed.
		One union for engineering workers would seem to be a good way to satisfy everybody, but it will not happen this year.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1976/05/engineers.htm (1124 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Derek Simpson's victory in the election for general secretary of the engineering and electrical workers trade union is one of the great David and Goliath stories.
		He was 57 years old, a district secretary of the union, with his job and prospects secure, provided he kept his head down.
		Thirty years ago the engineering union was the most democratic in the world.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4467462,00.html (767 words)

	Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Electronics engineering is that branch of electrical engineering concerned with the uses of the electromagnetic spectrum and with the application of such electronic devices as integrated circuits, transistors, and vacuum tubes.
		The General and Municipal Workers' Union was formed in 1924 by the merger of the National Union of Gas and General Workers, the National Amalgamated Union of Labour, and the Municipal Employees' Association.
		Broadly defined, engineering is the science-based profession by which the physical forces of nature and the properties of matter are made useful to humans in the form of structures, machines, and other products or processes at a reasonable expenditure of time and money.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005994?tocId=9005994 (916 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Unions demand Rolls-Royce terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Scottish regional council of the Amalgamated Engineering & Electrical Union (AEEU), which met on Saturday to discuss the implications of the decision, agreed a four-point plan to prevent further redundancies.
		Unions want state aid similar to that agreed for farmers hit by the foot-and-mouth crisis, to counteract the slump in airline demand in the wake of the US atrocities.
		Union leaders had earlier warned the firm, which employs 43,500 people in 48 countries, against a knee-jerk reaction to the slump in the wider aviation industry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/1609977.stm (683 words)

	JCU - JCU Library Archives
		In 1920, the Society changed its name to the Amalgamated Engineering Union and steady growth in the local area saw the formation of a second branch at Oonoonba and in all major northern provincial centres.
		With the amalgamation with the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society in 1972, it became Australia's largest trade union and this position was enhanced in 1976 when it was joined by the Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Union.
		AMWSU/MISC/10 Posters on the Amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, The Sheet Metal Workers' Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, 1972.
	www.library.jcu.edu.au /Specials/Archives/amwsu.shtml (979 words)

	Catalogue of the Richard Albert Etheridge Papers 1946-1975
		In 1946 Etheridge was elected to the AEU's Birmingham District Committee.
		In 1958 and on 5 subsequent occasions he was elected to the AEU National Committee which was, in effect, an annual conference on union policy.
		of Birmingham District Committee of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions [CSEU] : dupl.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/202.htm (5578 words)

	Socialist Viewpoint
		The union leaders settled for too little too early, and the mood of the rank and file in these unions will no doubt be expressed in the next round of internal elections.
		This is not an end in itself, of course, but part of the struggle to change the policies of the unions, to return to their militant, fighting traditions in the interests of their members, and put an end to the period of social partnership—in reality class collaboration—once and for all.
		In their own unions and collectively across the movement these new leaders will hold a great authority, an authority that must be used in the interests of their members and of the working class as a whole.
	www.socialistviewpoint.org /oct_02/oct_02_22.html (2718 words)

	Britain: Sheffield steel workers locked out following dispute over pay cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		The union left the workforce to rot outside the company gates for eight years between 1986 and New Year's Eve 1994, before the few remaining strikers were forced to give up on their failed dispute.
		The union has once again done nothing to mobilise any of its 730,000 members against this lockout, even within the company itself, and has refused to take any action to prevent the recruiting of scabs, whom the AEEU no doubt hopes to represent after the dispute.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jun2001/shef-j02_prn.shtml (1381 words)

	WCML - Guide to Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eddie was involved in the union movement throughout his working life and for the ten years leading up to his retirement in 1971 was full-tirne Manchester District Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
		The records of unions in other industries include local divisional and district papers of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers and minute books and subscription records of both the Warrington District and the Manchester Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Wiredrawers and Kindred Workers.
		Local unions are well represented in the large collection of rulebooks, the earliest of which is a revised edition, dated 1843, of the rules and regulations of the Manchester-based Journeymen Steam Engine, Machine Maker and Millwrights' Friendly Society.
	www.wcml.org.uk /wcml/gknight.htm (2432 words)

	International news shorts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Following Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union leader Ken Jackson's 'partnership' fantasy comments about a "strike free Britain" at the Trade Union Congress, workers showed him what they thought of his 'roll over and play dead' attitude by walking out as part of pay negotiations at the AEEU represented Ford car works.
		On August 20th, the trade unions of chemical workers in the city of Jambula (Taraza) were banned from holding a public meeting within the city limits.
		The chairman of the union committee of the
	struggle.ws /ws99/inter58.html (420 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Abbreviations (Ae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		AECS is an abbreviation for Aerospace Engineering Conference and Exhibits
		AEEU is an abbreviation for Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.
		AEU was an abbreviation for Amalgamated Engineering Union.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /N1AE.HTM (581 words)

	Independent Portfolio
		Last year, Mr Simpson, who was then an obscure union official in Sheffield, was warned that he would not be welcome at the assembly because of his temerity in challenging Sir Ken Jackson for the leadership.
		He is often identified with the "awkward squad" of left-wing unionists including Tony Woodley, general secretary-elect of the TandG union, Bob Crow of the RMT rail union, Mick Rix of the train drivers' union Aslef and Billy Hayes of the Communication Workers Union.
		The union will demand that ministers go beyond their recommendations in a Green Paper and introduce a law to force employers to make minimum contributions to workers' pensions.
	www.btinternet.com /~davidbeaumont/msf/independentsimpson.html (1357 words)

	General Strike report of the Glasgow branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, May 1926
		There was a great deal of dissatisfaction amongst engineering and shipyard workers at the General Councils decision to keep them in reserve during the first week of the strike.
		The decision not to bring out the engineering and shipbuilding workers until later on in the strike explains the relatively slight impact of the General Strike in Glasgow.
		The order from the STUC to withdraw labour from the shipyards and engineering shops came on the 11th May. The response from the workers was overwhelming but within a few hours of joining their comrades on strike the TUC had called off the General Strike.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc205.htm (299 words)

	New Statesman: The workers are restless: from the city of The Full Monty comes the forgotten rumble of revolt, as the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The birthplace of Roy Hattersley and David Blunkett, it is known for its high-minded municipal socialism; its council fell to Labour as early as 1926.
		His own union had already turned decisively to the right after the retirement of the AEU president Hugh Scanlon in 1978; and Simpson found himself part of a dwindling band of leftwingers, clinging to what looked like an increasingly obsolete tradition of class war.
		Simpson appealed to the old values of the engineers' union (founded as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1851), calling for the restoration of workplace democracy and accountability.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4598_131/ai_90793604 (1527 words)

	Bill Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1986, he was elected as National President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), a union formed in 1851.
		He also campaigned for a merger between the AEU and the electricians' union to form the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, and became its first president.
		He served on the National Economic Development Council and chaired its Engineering Industry Committee, was on ACAS Council and member of Foundation for Manufacturing and Industry.
	www.icann.org /tlds/union1/sponsoring/attachments/biojordan.html (415 words)

	spiked-central \| Letter \| Hughie, I hardly knew you
		But when Scanlon dominated the union during the engineering struggles of 1972, he revealed himself to be a traitor to his members, and to the working class.
		Manchester's 30,000 engineering trade unionists occupied their factories for three months, in the teeth of some of the hardest and best-organised employers in Britain.
		When the Sheffield district committee of the engineering union called their members out for the claim, Scanlon sent them back and stated that they would have to be directed by the Manchester example.
	www.spiked-online.com /Printable/0000000CA392.htm (271 words)

	The Steam Engine Makers' Society: An Introduction
		The Steam Engine Makers' Society (SEM) was a union of engineers founded in Liverpool in 1824 which expanded to limited national coverage in the late 1830s.
		Actual wages paid varied around the union standard rate, and if SEM members were the better workmen, and more regularly employed, their earnings would have been somewhat higher.
		The clearest evidence for this is a series of interviews given to the Webbs by trade union organisers in the 1890s; for example, the ASE organiser for Wales and the south-west said he 'had no objection to the SEM, although he regards it as merely a friendly society.
	www.geog.port.ac.uk /lifeline/sem_db/sem_history.html (1744 words)

	Independent, The (London): One out, all out
		Did a gaunt, long-forgotten communist Amalgamated Engineering Union convener called Harry Hitchings actually climb perilously to the top of a water tower at the GKN plant in Cardiff and remain defiantly there like Simeon Stylites for four long days and night in protest at a breach in national engineering disputes procedure by management?
		They also democratised the unions by insisting on ballots for the elections of union executives (and so helped to save the Labour Party from itself by making their conference delegations more politically moderate).
		This was the era of the shop steward, and of unofficial strikes that the union leaderships were frequently unable to control.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200201/ai_n9670885 (1358 words)

	House of Commons - Trade and Industry - Minutes of Evidence
		The AEEU was formed out of a merger of two unions the EETPU and the AEU and merged with sister union MSF on 1 January 2002 to form a new super union, Amicus.
		In 1971 the federation became known as the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.
		A large part of the unions' vision for the future involved a greater emphasis on training and the unions successfully argued that a greater investment in skills would lead to better work content and more satisfying jobs for employees as well as improved productivity and competitiveness of the company.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtrdind/597/2022615.htm (3261 words)

	Print Article: John Halfpenny dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in 1935, John Halfpenny served as secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council from 1987 to 1995 and was an Executive member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
		"John Halfpenny made a magnificent contribution to the trade union movement and to the Australian way of life and was responsible for ensuring the preservation of much of Australia's manufacturing industry.
		He dominated the Victorian Union movement from his positions as state secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in 1972, secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1970 and was an organiser for the Amalgamated Engineering Union during 1969.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/12/21/1071941589179.html (191 words)

	The National Archives \| Search the archives \| National Register of Archives \| Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Consett branch (1)
		Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Pontypool district (1)
		Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions: Coventry district committee (2)
	www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/searches/sidocs.asp?LR=152 (1832 words)

	A Catalogue of the papers of the Amalgamated Engineering Union
		In 1970 the Draughtsmen and Allied Technicians Union and the Constructional Engineering Union joined the AEF to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, organised into four seperate sections.
		The AEU and the EETPU (Electrician's Union) joined to form the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) in May 1992.
		Authority records exist for the the Amalgamated Engineering Union (1920-67) (GB 0152 AAR0520); Amalgamated Society of Engineers (GB 0152 AAR0550); Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers (GB 0152 AAR0519); Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (GB 0152 AAR0512); Amalgamated Engineering Union (1986-92) (GB 0152 AAR0511) and Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (GB 0152 AAR0510).
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/259aeu.htm (4703 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Accredited trade union representatives are permitted to leave their place of work in the course of duties within the terms of the Procedure Agreement with the University, subject to obtaining prior permission from the Head of Section or his or her nominee.
		Full-time trade union officers are permitted onto University or College premises with the prior consent of the Director of Personnel.
		The Chairman or Chairwoman of the Board of Studies (except in the School of Engineering and Computing Science, where it is the Chairman or Chairwoman of the School, and the Business School where it is the Director).
	www.dur.ac.uk /Personnel/ph13.htm (769 words)

	S0656
		At the hearing of the matter in Perth on 6 October, 1999 a number of issues were raised in the matter and this decision deals with each of them seriatim.
		In that case unions had sought to argue that the form of order used to implement the "total wage" was invalid because it was made by a Bench constituted other than as prescribed by s.33 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 for variation of the "basic wage".
		The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration and The Australian Railways Union; Ex parte The Victorian Railways Commissioners [(1935) 53 CLR 113] referred to by the CEPU in its written reply which is inconsistent with this conclusion.
	www.airc.gov.au /my_html/S0656.htm (1918 words)

	What were the main effects of the 1979-1997 Conservative governments’ reforms to collective labour law and what ...
		In 1990 the Transport and General Workers Union membership stood at 1224000, the Amalgamated Engineering Union at 702000 and the General Municipal Boilermakers Union membership stood at 865000.
		In 1997 trade union membership stood at 7154000 employees, a massive drop of 6293000 from that of 1979, and a union density of 30.2%, again a big drop of 25.2%.
		This act effects trade union recognition and de-recognition (bringing back in the standard procedures), access to workers when industrial action is being considered and ballots are taking place.
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