Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union (known as Manufacturing, Science, Finance or MSF)

Records including annual conference reports and agenda, national executive committee minutes and east midlands regional council minutes.

Manufacturing, Science, Finance was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs and the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section, both of which had themselves grown by the accretion of smaller unions.

TASS's members were skilled and professional staff employed mainly in the engineering industry, while ASTMS had developed into a white-collar union with members in all sectors of industry and services. It merged with the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) in 2001 to form AMICUS. Ken Gill was the first General Secretary.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

These papers were deposited at the Centre by Manufacturing, Science, Finance in January 2000. Additional records of the NEC were deposited in 2011 (Acc. 807)

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSF

Unpublished records in this collection which are under 30 years old are closed. The approval of the depositor is required before publication. Please contact the Centre for further details (archives@warwick.ac.uk).

The collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Further deposits are expected.

The Modern Records Centre also holds records of: the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (TASS), earlier the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section); the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) and predecessors; the Heating and Domestic Engineers' Union and predecessors; Bill Walsh, MSF official.