§ Mr. Banksasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the organisations and the groups of his Department's employees to which he has given recognition.
§ Mr. Pattie[pursuant to his reply, 25 March 1983, c. 193]: Formal recognition, as defined in employment legislation, extends to the following trades unions representing the interests of non-industrial Ministry of Defence employees:
- Association of Government Supervisors and Radio Operators.
- Chief Police Officers Association.*
- Civil and Public Services Association.
- Civil Service Union.
- Defence Police Federation.*
- First Division Association.
- Institution of Professional Civil Servants.
- Ministry of Defence Staff Association.*
- Retired Officers Association.*
406 - Society of Civil and Public Servants.
Those marked * cover a particular class, for example, the Ministry of Defence Staff Association has recognition for the departmental grades of the Royal Observer Corps class, comprising Observer Captain, Observer Commander, Observer Lieutenant Commander and Observer Lieutenant.
MOD industrial employees are represented by the following:
- Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Engineering Section).
- Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Foundry Section).
- Association of Patternmakers and Allied Craftsmen.
- Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Union.
- Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union.
- Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union.
- General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Unions.
- National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths and Heating and Domestic Engineers.
- Transport and General Workers Union.
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians.