Society of Civil and Public Servants

Society of Civil and Public Servants
Merged into	National Union of Civil and Public Servants
Founded	1918
Dissolved	1988
Headquarters	124-130 Southwark Street, London[1]
Location	United Kingdom;
Members	46,000 (1963); 106,903 (1982)[1]
Publication	Opinion[1]
Affiliations	TUC, CCSU, NFPW, STUC

The Society of Civil and Public Servants (SCPS) was a trade union representing middle-ranking civil servants in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1918 as the Society of Civil Servants (SCS), to represent intermediate class clerks. They became part of the executive class in 1920, but the union decided against merging with the Association of Executive Officers, operating in competition until 1930. In 1922, it founded the Institute of Public Administration.[2]

The Association of Executive Officers merged into the Society of Public Servants in 1930. The merger left the union with 7,500 members, and this grew rapidly, to 24,000 by the end of World War II, and 46,000 in 1963, at which time more than 90% of eligible workers were members.[3]

The union merged with the Customs and Excise Group and Association of Officers of the Ministry of Labour in 1975, and the following year, it adopted its final name.[3] By this period, in addition to the civil service, it had members in the Post Office and the UK Atomic Energy Authority.[1]

In 1988, the society merged with the Civil Service Union to form the National Union of Civil and Public Servants.[4]

General Secretaries

1930: Albert James Taylor Day

1946:

1948: Edward Redhead

1956: Leslie Williams

1966: John Dryden

1973: Gerry Gillman

1985: Leslie Christie

References

Marsh, Arthur (1984). Trade Union Handbook (3 ed.). Aldershot: Gower. pp. 146–147. ISBN 0566024268.
Nottage, Raymond & Freida Stack (1972) "The Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1922-1939" Public Administration, vol. 50, no. 3.
Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of British Trade Unions, vol.1, pp.198-199
"Trade union family trees - Public and Commercial Services Union" (PDF). Trade Union Ancestors. 23 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

External links

Catalogue of the SCPS archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

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[tuh82-1] Marsh, Arthur (1984). Trade Union Handbook (3 ed.). Aldershot: Gower. pp. 146–147. ISBN 0566024268.

[NottageRaymond-2] Nottage, Raymond & Freida Stack (1972) "The Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1922-1939" Public Administration, vol. 50, no. 3.

[marsh-3] Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of British Trade Unions, vol.1, pp.198-199

[tree-4] "Trade union family trees - Public and Commercial Services Union" (PDF). Trade Union Ancestors. 23 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010.