ASTMS
Association of Scientific
Technical and Managerial Staffs

His wife worked at the ASTMS union.

Within 15 years ASTMS grew from an initial membership of 65,000 to a figure approaching 500,000.

In a 1977 vote initiated by ASTMS at Greenock, 13,000 voted against union representation, and only 44 employees were for it.

In 1970 he became a National Officer of ASTMS and in 1987 Assistant General Secretary.

Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS)

Clive Jenkins kept himself (and ASTMS) in the public eye, with frequent appearances on television chat shows and his own regular newspaper columns.

McKechnie remained with ASTMS until her appointment as Chief Executive of the homeless charity Shelter.

With advertising and personal appearances on television he kept ASTMS in the public's eye, within 15 years the union had expanded from 65,000 members to a figure approaching 500,000.

In 1988, ASTMS merged with TASS to form MSF.

From the 1960s its was rented by the ASTMS Union, led by its charismatic general secretary Clive Jenkins.

When Mr Kinnock succeeded Michael Foot in 1983, the early support of the ASTMS white-collar union gave him a crucial head-start.

Donna Haber, of the white-collar union ASTMS, says that most of the studies so far have involved feeding genetically engineered E. coli to test subjects.

The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988.

In 1976 trade union activist Sheila McKechnie was appointed as the full-time Health and Safety Director of ASTMS.

On leaving university, Benn became a Research Officer with the ASTMS and rose to become Head of Policy for Manufacturing Science and Finance.

Baroness Turner was until 1987 Assistant General Secretary of ASTMS (later Manufacturing, Science and Finance, Amicus and now Unite the Union).

His union career began in 1966 as a full-time union official for the North West England region of ASSET, one of the unions which later became ASTMS.

According to Carter and Cooper, the history of the ASTMS showed that it was "...a much looser form of organization,", while TASS was more "Communist."

In 1988 it merged with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) to become the Manufacturing Science and Finance Union (MSF).

Previously she had held a number of positions in the Labour Party and also in her trade union, Unison, since joining the now defunct ASTMS union in 1979 and Labour in 1982.

They included the National Communications Union, contributors to the earlier feasibility study, and left-wing unions such as TASS, UCATT and Clive Jenkins's ASTMS.

Donna Haber, from ASTMS who is also a member of an OECD expert group looking at safety in the biotechnology industry, says that the key to safety in biotechnology is planning in advance.

He held Reading, which became a highly marginal seat, until the 1959 general election when he was famously ousted by fellow ASSET (later ASTMS and MSF) trade unionist, Peter Emery.

In 1969 ASSET merged with the AScW (the Association of Scientific Workers) to form ASTMS (The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs).

In 1988, shortly after ASTMS merged with TASS (the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section) to form MSF (Manufacturing, Science and Finance), Jenkins unexpectedly announced his retirement.

He was also a founder and president of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors.

American Association of Scientific Workers President (1939-40)

International Association of Scientific Hydrology, 64:493-507.

The company is a member of International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers.

During 1943 Sprigg had been secretary of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers.

She was a member of the Fabian Society and a branch secretary of the Association of Scientific Workers.

He returned to Ukraine in 1924 and worked for the Association of scientific and technological workers to influence the socialist construction (Kharkiv, 1928-1931).

And the French Association of Scientific Information has assigned a group of scientists and social scientists to review the thesis.

The Association of Scientific Workers (AScW) was a trade union in the UK.

Institute of Soviet Law of the Russian Association of scientific institutes of the social sciences (1923-1930)

Between 1968 and 1974, Brett was divisional officer for the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs.

The New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers, Wellington, New Zealand, 1962.

It was founded as the National Union of Scientific Workers in 1918, changing its name to the Association of Scientific Workers in 1927.

It amalgamated with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs in 1970 under the leadership of Hugh Faulkner.

In 1981, the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism defined tourism in terms of particular activities selected by choice and undertaken outside the home.

Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS)

Nunn May joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s, and was active in the Association of Scientific Workers.

It was founded in 1919 as the Guild of Insurance Officials, and merged with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Management Staff in 1970.

The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988.

The psychological obstacles to the restoration of the international associations of scientific workers are still too formidable to be overcome by the minority whose ideas and feelings are of a more comprehensive kind.

Institutions on the plateau at this time begin to join together in an association d'établissements scientifiques (association of scientific institutions, AES) to reflect future developments of the area.

Most of the technicians were socialists, and Livingstone helped found a branch of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs to fight redundancies imposed by company bosses.

Jenkins had early involvement in his trade union the AScW (Association of Scientific Workers), and become a lay official in 1944 when he was elected as secretary of his branch.

"The choice of the target suggests a well-thought out plan," said Sergei V. Kozyrev, vice president of the Russian Association of Scientific Societies and a Starovoitova supporter.

In August 1981, following a formal claim for damages made by the trade union Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs in 1979, Parker's husband, Joseph, was awarded £25,000 in compensation.

Between 1968 and 1974, Brett was divisional officer for the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs.

It amalgamated with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs in 1970 under the leadership of Hugh Faulkner.

Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS)

The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988.

Most of the technicians were socialists, and Livingstone helped found a branch of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs to fight redundancies imposed by company bosses.

In August 1981, following a formal claim for damages made by the trade union Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs in 1979, Parker's husband, Joseph, was awarded £25,000 in compensation.

In 1988 it merged with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) to become the Manufacturing Science and Finance Union (MSF).

In 1969 ASSET merged with the AScW (the Association of Scientific Workers) to form ASTMS (The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs).

Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, thought it was a "confidence trick" and observed that "when the British ruling class is in trouble it wraps itself in the Union Jack".

The MSF was the result of a merger in January 1988 between the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) and the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (TASS).

While at Texaco in 1979, Daisley had joined the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs and became an active trade unionist; he joined the Labour Party in 1982 in Lewisham, feeling that "it needed all the help it could get".

Prior to entering politics Watson worked as a tutor/organiser for the Workers' Educational Association and in the trade union movement, for the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union (MSF).