From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ACCORD
ACCORD
Accord In 1978 Ernie Roberts was appointed as the first Gen-
eral Secretary. Branch reps were elected and Regional
Committees established. From these groups a National
Committee was elected, which met for the first time in
August 1978. The HBSSA was formed. By the end of 1978
Full name Accord the HBSSA was recognised by the then Halifax Building
Members 30,000 Society "as the sole bargaining agent for its members be-
low Executive and Regional Manager level".
Country United Kingdom
In January 1979 the HBSSA was granted its Certificate
Affiliation TUC, STUC, ICTU, Alliance for Finance of Independence. This meant that it was recognised by
the Government as a bona fide trades union and was af-
Key people Ged Nichols, general secretary
forded the rights to which it was entitled. In 1980 the
Office location Charvil, Berkshire, England HBSSA held its first conference in Manchester. In 1983
Ernie Roberts retired, allowing David Nash to become the
Website www.accord-myunion.org
second General Secretary. Bill Wright was appointed As-
sistant General Secretary.
Accord is a trade union for HBOS workers within the
At the 1994 Conference delegates voted to rename the
Lloyds Banking Group. It has more than 30,000 members
HBSSA the Independent Union of Halifax Staff (IUHS). In
and is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, the Scot-
1995 the Halifax Building Society merged with the Leeds
tish Trades Union Congress and the Irish Congress of
Permanent Building Society. The following year the
Trade Unions.
Leeds Staff Association joined the IUHS. Also in 1996, The
Accord can trace its origins back to 1978, when it was
Halifax acquired the Clerical Medical Investment Group
founded as the Halifax Building Society Staff Association
and in 1999 announced its merger with the Bank of Scot-
(HBSSA). The HBSSA was founded by John Simmons, the
land. The union was therefore renamed again by dele-
then manager of the Halifax branch in Plymouth. He had
gates at the 2002 conference to reflect the diversity of its
concluded that staff within the Halifax Building Society
membership. From this point onwards it was known as
were in need of trade union representation, and had be-
Accord.
gun organising in earnest in 1977. Simmons was keen to
avoid the use of the word "union" because of the negative
connotations associated with militant trade unions in the External links
UK in the 1970s. Accord’s headquarters, Simmons House,
• ACCORD official site.
is named after John Simmons.
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