Posted by Pete Warren on 06 October 2000 at 13:46:16:
As a member of the IT Profesionals Association I have been in contact with them about the removal of funds from the 'C' Plan.
The union's position is that they consider the fund to be the property of the members of the fund and Peter Skyte, the National Secretary, has suggested that MSF support could assist the campaign through:
* advice to MSF members on their rights
* working with MSF members on the pension fund campaign
MSF has a specialist Pensions Officer who is also the Secretary of the Campaign for Pension Fund Democracy.
Peter Skyte heads the ITPA, which is an autonomous section of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union, MSF. MSF is the 5th largest union in the UK and established the ITPA to look after the interests of 12,000 members who are information technology professionals.
There has been membership of MSF within IBM for many years. More recently, groups of MSF members have transferred into IBM from other companies where MSF is organised and has recognition. Now for the first time, MSF is recognised by IBM for collective and individual representation in some areas. MSF has membership at many IBM sites including Perth (ex-General Accident), Wilton (ex-ICI),
Peterborough (ex-Pearl), Portsmouth,Hursley, Warwick, Greenock etc.
ITPA wish to provide effective employee organisation and representation in IBM. Peter would welcome people contacting him who would be interested in this. His address is:
skytep@msf.org.uk
The web address for the ITPA is www.msf-itpa.org.uk