Aegis
Aegis the Union
Founded1971
Headquarters
  • Aegon UK plc
  • Edinburgh Park
  • Edinburgh EH12 9SE
Location
Members
3,459 (2022)[1]
Key people
AffiliationsTUC, A4F
Websitewww.aegistheunion.co.uk

Aegis is a trade union representing workers in financial services in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1971 as the Scottish Equitable Staff Association, an internal staff association at Scottish Equitable.[2] Scottish Equitable was renamed Aegon UK in 2010, and the union changed its name to "Aegis", affiliating to the Trades Union Congress in the same year.[3]

By 2012, some Aegon staff had been outsourced, and the union began also recruiting those workers. This led it to pursue a strategy of gradual growth into other parts of the financial services industry.[2] In 2014, the unions SURGE and YISA merged into Aegis,[4] expanding the operation of the union into Skipton Building Society, Homeloan Management Limited (now known as Computershare) and Yorkshire Building Society as well.

The current General Secretary is Brian Linn.

References

  1. ^ "Annual Return for a Trade Union" (PDF). publishing.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "About Aegis". Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ^ Chelmsford TUC, "A Snapshot of Trade Union Events Archived 2008-07-13 at the Wayback Machine"
  4. ^ TUC Directory 2015 (PDF). Trades Union Congress. January 2015. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-85006-962-1. Retrieved 16 June 2015.


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