British Association of Colliery Management – Technical, Energy and Administrative Management

BACM-TEAM
Full name British Association of Colliery Management - Technical, Energy and Administrative Management
Founded 1940s
Date dissolved 31 October 2014 (2014-10-31)
Merged into Prospect
Members 2,664
Affiliation TUC
Key people Phil Huddleston, President
Pat Carragher, General Secretary
Office location Edwinstowe, England
Country United Kingdom
Website bacmteam.org.uk

The British Association of Colliery Management – Technical, Energy and Administrative Management (BACM-TEAM) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with Prospect in 2014.[1]

The union was founded in the early 1940s as the Yorkshire Association of Colliery Officials and Staff,[2] representing managers in the coal industry, from oversmen up.[3] It rapidly gained members across the country, and renamed itself as the British Association of Colliery Officials and Staff. In 1947, following the nationalisation of the coal industry, it became the British Association of Colliery Management.[4]

The union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1977, by which time it had 15,769 members. However, due to the closure of much of the British mining industry, its membership was down to 5,640 in 1993, and it decided to recruit members in other industrial sectores. In 1997, the "Technical, Energy, and Administrative Membership" section was created to represent those members and, the following year, it was appended to the official name of the union. By 2004, 60 per cent of its membership worked outside the coal industry.[2]

References

  1. "The British Association of Colliery Management". Retrieved 2015-06-16.
  2. 1 2 John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, p.528
  3. British Institute of Management, Three Studies in Management, p.54
  4. A brief history, BACM-TEAM

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