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 .
5-481: IPCS (or ipcs ) can refer to: The Institute of Postcolonial Studies , an independent educational and research institution in Melbourne Institution of Professional Civil Servants , a former British trade union International Programme on Chemical Safety , a United Nations organization ipcs , a UNIX command Interactive Problem Control System ,
10-635: A dump-reading facility in OS/360 and successors The International Playing-Card Society See also [ edit ] IPC (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title IPCS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IPCS&oldid=1142948736 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
15-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Institution of Professional Civil Servants 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
20-754: 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
25-406: 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
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