Association of Scientific Workers

The Association of Scientific Workers (AScW) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was founded as the National Union of Scientific Workers in 1918, changing its name to the Association of Scientific Workers in 1927.

Association of Scientific Workers

Merged into	Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
Founded	1918
Dissolved	1968
Headquarters	15 Half Moon Street, London
Location	United Kingdom
Publication	Association of Scientific Workers Journal
Affiliations	WFSW, ITUC

The union largely represented laboratory and technical workers in universities, the National Health Service and in chemical and metal manufacturing. It was the union for scientists with a conscience,^{[dubious – discuss]} and could name half-a-dozen Nobel Prize winners amongst its membership. The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher was also a member.

In 1969 AScW merged with the ASSET (Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians) to form ASTMS (the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs)

General Secretaries

1918: Norman Campbell

1920: Archibald Church

1931:

1935: William Alfred Wooster

1945: Roy Innes

1949: Ted Ainley

1951: Ben Smith

1954: John Dutton

Literature

• Roy MacLeod, Kay MacLeod: The Contradictions of Professionalism: Scientists, Trade Unionism and the First World War, in: Social Studies of Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, European Issue (Feb., 1979), pp. 1–32

External links

• Catalogue of the AScW archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

• Organized labour portal