Founded 1988 Office location Gloucestershire, UK | Members 2,535 | |
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Full name UFS (Formerly Union of Finance Staff) Key people Alan Wood, General Secretary
Lynda Merrett, Assistant General Secretary
Sue Horton, NEC Chair Country England
Wales
Channel Islands
Isle of Man | ||
UFS is a registered, independent trade union, established in 1988 with its headquarters in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It is a non-profit-making organisation, and is not affiliated to the TUC or to any political party.
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UFS members come from many different employment sectors and they have partnership agreements with some of the UK's major employers, including Zurich Financial Services, Capita Group (Life & Pensions), IBM and CSC.
History
The union was originally formed as the Eagle Star Staff Union by local organiser Alan Wood. Following the takeover of Eagle Star by Zurich Financial Services in 1998, ESSU changed its name to the Union of Finance Staff.
It now goes by the shortened name UFS and has members in various Companies, including Capita, CSC, IBM and Swiss Post.
National Executive Committee
As a union, UFS is a democratic organisation that is organised into geographic regions, and is controlled by a National Executive Committee (NEC) which is elected by UFS members from different regions.
NEC members are not employed by UFS except the position of General Secretary, which, as well as being an employed position, is also an elected NEC seat. The current General Secretary of UFS is Alan Wood