Aegis the Union
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| Full name | Aegis the Union |
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| Founded | 1971 |
| Members | 4,602 (2015)[1] |
| Affiliation | TUC, A4F |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website |
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Aegis is a trade union representing workers in financial services in the United Kingdom.
The union was founded in 1971 as the Scottish Equitable Staff Association, an internal staff association at Scottish Equitable.[2] Scottish Equitable was renamed Aegon UK in 2010, and the union changed its name to "Aegis", affiliating to the Trades Union Congress in the same year.[3]
By 2012, some Aegon staff had been outsourced, and the union began also recruiting those workers. This led it to pursue a strategy of gradual growth into other parts of the financial services industry.[2] In 2014, the unions SURGE and YISA merged into Aegis,[4] expanding the operation of the union into Skipton Building Society and Yorkshire Building Society as well.
The current General Secretary is Brian Linn.
References
- ↑ "TUC Directory 2015" (PDF). Trades Union Congress. January 2015. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-85006-962-1. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- 1 2 "About Aegis". Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ↑ Chelmsford TUC, "A Snapshot of Trade Union Events"
- ↑ "TUC Directory 2015" (PDF). Trades Union Congress. January 2015. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-85006-962-1. Retrieved 2015-06-16.