• Source: Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists

    • The Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists (IPMS) was a trade union representing managers and other people with professional qualifications in the United Kingdom, with a majority of members working in the civil service.


    History


    The union was founded in 1919 as the Institution of Professional Civil Servants (IPCS), bringing together seventeen associations based in individual departments of the civil service. The spur for its formation was the creation of the Whitley Council system, on which the new union qualified for two seats. Membership grew rapidly, from 1,534 on formation, to 2,917 the following year, reaching 99,000 by 1980.
    The union initially operated only as a loose confederation, but in 1946 it established its own National Executive Committee and headquarters, and in 1951, the remaining constituents became branches of the union. At this point, it had strong representation in the Post Office, and it worked as part of the Council of Post Office Unions from 1969 until 1977.

    The union absorbed the Society of Technical Civil Servants in 1969. In 1976, after many attempts to get its members to agree, it joined the Trades Union Congress. In 1984, the Association of Government Supervisors and Radio Operators (AGSRO) joined IPCS.
    Following privatisation of the jobs of many of its members, IPCS changed its name to the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists, in 1989. In 2001, it merged with the Engineers' and Managers' Association to form Prospect.


    Leadership




    = General Secretaries

    =
    1945: Leslie Herbert
    1948: Stanley Mayne
    1961: Richard Nunn
    1963: Bill McCall
    1989: Bill Brett
    1999: Paul Noon


    = Honorary Secretaries

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    1919: R. C. Bristow
    1920: J. H. Salmon
    1925: Frederick A. A. Menzler
    1928: S. H. Bales and H. W. Monroe
    1929: S. H. Bales, A. O. Gibbon and H. W. Monroe
    1930: S. H. Bales and H. W. Monroe
    1935: S. H. Bales
    1936: S. H. Bales and H. R. Lintern
    1938: Ivor Bowen
    1938: H. Whittaker
    1939: O. C. Watson
    1941: L. Lanham
    1942: J. Fraser
    1943: G. C. Allfrey
    1945: J. A. Nicol
    1947: Position abolished


    = Honorary Presidents

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    1921: Richard Redmayne
    1957: Graham Sutton
    1961: Verney Stott
    1963: Position abolished


    References




    External links


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

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