- FDA (trade union)
Infobox Union|
name= FDA
country=United Kingdom
affiliation= TUC, STUC, ICTU,Wales TUC , PSI
members= 16,000
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founded= 1919
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office= Waterloo,London ,England
people=Jonathan Baume , general secretary
website= [http://www.fda.org.uk/ www.fda.org.uk]
footnotes=The FDA is a federated British
trade union and professional association for seniorcivil servant s and public service professionals, founded in 1919. It has around 16,000 members, including Whitehall policy advisers and senior managers, tax inspectors,economist s andstatistician s, government-employed lawyers and crown prosecutors, schools inspectors, diplomats, senior national museum staff, accountants and NHS managers.Its federal structure means that some of its members do not join FDA directly, but rather an affiliated organisation. In particular, senior staff at
HM Revenue and Customs apply to the "Association of Revenue and Customs" (ARC), and management in the NHS join "Managers in Partnership" (MiP).The FDA is an affiliate of the
Trades Union Congress , theScottish Trades Union Congress , theWales TUC and theIrish Congress of Trade Unions but is not affiliated to the Labour Party or any other political party. The FDA is also affiliated toPublic Services International .Name
Despite often being known (particularly in the British Press) as the "First Division Association", the legal name of the union is "FDA". It describes itself as 'FDA - the union of choice for senior managers and professionals in public service'.
The original name, 'The Association of First Division Civil Servants (FDA)' was chosen because it represented first division clerks, as opposed to the Second Division Association, which represented more junior clerks. Although the terms first and second division clerks were abolished in the 1920s, it proved impossible to agree on an alternative name, and the name remained until 2001 when, following a motion to the union's annual conference, the official name became "FDA".
General Secretary
Jonathan Baume has been General Secretary since 1997 and was previously Assistant General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary. The previous General Secretary (1989-96) wasElizabeth Symons and the one before her was John Ward (1980-8). The union's first full time General Secretary was Norman Ellis, who was appointed in 1974.ee also
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British Civil Service External links
* [http://www.fda.org.uk/ FDA website]
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